Evening star., 1945-01-18
Todoy's Casualty Lists
(NationaD
Army killed -3,I53
Navy casualties ----- 200

Army killed -3,I53
Navy casualties 200
/ Killed
Pfc. Benjamin N. Loving, IS, who's
mother, Mrs. Lottie Loving, lives a
, los Fifth street NE, was killed il
Italy on January 2, his wife, Mrs
Elizabeth Cowan Loving, Richmond
Va, has been informed by the Wa
Department. A story on Pvt. Loving
who was professional golfer befor
he entered the Army, appears OF
page Bis of today's Star.
Sergt. Robert J. Rafferty,, 27, in
fantry, was killed in action at Lux.
embourg December 26, the War De.
partment notified his mother, Mrs
Frances L. Rafferty,, 1914 Kearne,
street NE.
Sergt. Rafferty, pitched for the
Western High School baseball team
from 1884 to 1887. Later he playec
in the Valley League in Staunton
Va. Before entering the Army ir
September, 194l, he was employed
by Southern Wholesalers, Inc. Ii
1912 he accompanied an exhibition
military team to Canada for theil
Victory Loan drive. He went over.
seas last September.
He is also survived by two broth.
ers, Coxswain John P. Rafferty,, re-
Gently back from 80 months in the
Pacific, and Francis M. Rafferty, OF
Washington.
Requiem mass will be held at II
am. Saturday at ST. Anthony's
Church.
Pfc. Donald Shubert, %, infantry
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard B
Shubert, 2033 Florida avenue NV.
was killed in action on Leyte or
December 6, the War Department,
has informed his parents. Pvt. Shu-
bert was a veteran of the battles OF
Attu and Kwajalein, his parents
said.
He attended Western High School
and was graduated from Branford
High School, Branford, Conn. Pvt
Shubert entered the Army in Octo-
ber. 1912. and went overseas the fol-
lowing May, Mrs. Shubert said.
Wounded
Second 1t. Allen Rives Potts, %.
of the Marine Corps, husband of
Mrs. Allen Rives Potts, 6405 Meadow
lane, Chevy Chase, Md, was wounded
in action October 4 on Peleliu Is
land, the Navy Department made
known.
1t. Potts wrote his wife he had
received a shrapnel wound In his
hand. He has been overseas since
last March.
Born in Atlanta, 1t. Potts was
graduated from Augusta Military
Academy and Virginia Military In
stitute, Mrs. Potts said. He entered
the Marine Corps in the summer OF
l943. A brother. Pvt. Thomas Potts,
is with the Army in England. Mrs.
Potts is nurses aide at Emergency
Hospital.
1t. David Tucker Brown, jr- 27,
was slightly wounded in action on
October 20 serving with the marines
at Peleliu. but was never out of ac-
ton, according to his mother, Mrs.
David Tucker Brown of South Lee
street, Alexandria.
The son of the late David Tucker
Brown, former assistant director of
the Bureau of Roads, who died seven
years ago while travelling by plane
to South America to complete a
bridge project, 1t Brown was born
in Chapel Hill, S. C.
. He was educted at the Episcopal
High School in Alexandria and the
University of Virginia, and was a
tutor at st. Johns College, Annapo-
lis, until he resigned in June, 1941 to
join the Marine Corps.
After boot training, 1t. Brown
went to officers school at Quantico
and was commissioned in October,
1912, going to the South Pacific two
months later.
He has seen action at Cape Glou-
cester as well as at Peleliu, and has
one more campaign to complete be-
fore returning to the United States.
Mrs. Brown, whose younger son,
Edward, Is, is stationed in Panama
with an Army antiaircraft artillery,
is head of the speakers bureau for
the Eastern area of the Red Cross.
Pfc. william P. Curtis, 20, infantry
son of Mr.. and Mrs. William N. Cur
tbs, 1913 West street, Manassas. Va,
was wounded for the third time in
action, the War Department an
nounced.
He received three pieces of shrap-
mel above his left ear while fighting
in France December 8, Mrs. Curtis
said. He was first wounded June 4
in Italy when he suffered a sprained
ankle and shrapnel in his leg and
the second time he received a slight
conclusion from a shell explosion
while fighting in France October 26,
Mrs. Curtis said. He is now out Of
the hospital, his mother said.
Born in Macon, Ga, Pvt. Curtis
was graduated from high school in
Manassas and worked in a phar-
macy there before he entered the
Army in February, 1943. He went
overseas in October of the same
year, his mother said. A brother,
Second 1t Clarence Eugene Curtis,
is with the Air Corps in New
Mexico.
Marine Pfc. Gilbert H. Anders, jr.,
%, whose wife, Mrs. Helen F. An
ders, lives in Berwyn, Nd, was
wounded in action September % in
the South Pacific, the War Depart
ment announced.
A native of North Carolina, Pfc.
Anders came to the Washington
area about seven years ago. He at
tended Greenbelt High School prior
to entering the service in 1910. He
went overseas in November, 1912.
His wife is employed at the Agricul-
ture Department Research Center,
Beltsville.
A brother, Seaman (First Glass;
Robert Anders, is in the Navy and is
stationed in New York.
Pvt. John w. Fraber, jr., 81, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Fraber, ST :,
1912 North Quincy street, Arlington,
has been wounded in action the