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in and was Sons'ing ■aich re-Am Mein her of llrltinlt IC.tiMMlltlonary Force Hi* lt;\VfiN Seen to Full While KiiffiiKiMt In nit AMNUtilt With an Ac!viinethm; Force,’’ It opart Say«.ding?nchHiesnentBal d lie the tary soonIBS.uber•mano OHtonic IX ofLondon. Oct 6 (by mail).—William Cbilcutt, a young American from Tola, Kas., was killed recently while fighting with the British army at Iho Dardanelles.The complete details of the manner in which ho met his death are not avail, aide hole, and only a little of the story of his enlistment l/ the cause of the Allies is known, it has been learned, however, that in Juno the American am bassador, Mr. Page, received Instructions from the State Department to mako Inquiries of tho British authorities concerning Chllcutt, whose parents desired to obtain their son's release from the army, tho boy being under age.Tho embassy took the matter up with the British foreign office, which insli ding I *’1,c'i a search for tho young Kansan. Nish I k'mv Ambassador Page is in receipt of a letter from Sir Edward Grey which saye that Private William Chllcutt of tho Seventh Lancashire Fusiliers of the Mediterrancan expeditionary force, was :ntOB, I soon to fall while engaged In an assault ilongl with an advancing force In tho Dar-dancllos on August 7.Km ilK.M U KKNIJH SYMI’ATIIV.The foreign olflco asked that its condolences bo conveyed to tho soldier's parents, and also expressed tho syrn-have pal by of Lord Kitchener.jglon | Thero are now a great many American boys in the British army. The ombaBsy mkn, a*rcalt;,y obtained the release of half cndil 111 ,Jrir'Ml or more. 'I ho British government Is under no obligation to re lease these young men. but when they ure under ago and nro ''claimed by their parents they are given their dis-move charge UH a sort of act of graco.Hall- riiisr o\ okhoiai. ukatii t.iht. nltm Young Chllcutt Is the llrst American, ly re- so far as tho embassy Is officially aware m ill- to l.avr, been killed. Unofficially, (here are a number or others, but this case i-rlnus, tlie first to come through official chan novo, I nets.tiane,iltaa.ikov,ttackaedcdloncoplan i and i Iho Lonlkl North lev totiiikh ron ms itiEMCA.sia nv vaiw. TIi« Ml From lt;1. Il,„, ,•« KuOio■evidently \Vii« Too l.ntc.Ioi.a, Kah„ Oct. it.—a eorrcspondon for The star broke the news of Wll lam PhlleutPs death to his father, A lea at bort (I. Chllcutt, engineer for the Primy, and as all grow-ny on iincernn 14 I n «iio on-h and h be-rently:f thoerodl-Ihttt «0 to it is irriK-d ido of ration iy arthatcm ifWestern Spelter (Company hero, tonighYoung Chllcutt wan J7 yours old. hloft lolu about a year ago and wont 1Bordeaux, France, with a shipload t mules. Later ho drifted to Boiithpor Knghuul, from wJilch point ho report© hlM enlistment In tho British army t his parents. .Mr. Chlleutt at once pet tinned tho State Department to obtai his son's dismissal and several week ago Secretary Lansing replied that dlt; mnnd had been made through Ambai sudor Dago at London for tho youth* discharge 011 ground of minority.Tho last letter received from thel non came to Mr. and Mrs. Ohlicutt froi tho Dardanelles. Ho wrote that ho ha enlisted with n hoy from Kansas Ctt who was with him, hut whose nurne h did not give.When told of his son's death tonigh Mr. Chllcutt bitterly denounced th manner In which Ills sun had enlistee Mr. Chllriitt declared that Brttish r« erulflng officers came aboard the vosslt; bo I on- It landed and enlisted the Km huh Dlty and the lolan as Canadians.(Tli 1 leu 11 was a hue spur I men of youn manhood, standing six feet tall an weighing 1112 pounds.
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Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Mon, Oct 18, 1915
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