3 More Alumni Missing in Action

Raising the number of alumni missing or killed in action since Pearl Harbor to a total of 30, three more Harvard men have been reported lost, it war disclosed by the Alumni Bulletin yesterday.

According to these figures, the casualty list among graduates is about one per cent of the 3032 men whom the Bulletin reports in active service. However the actual total of men in the armed forces is probably far above that figure for the number of Harvard men enlisting daily is probably far ahead of the official records.

40 Per Cent Serve on Sea

Of the 3000 alumni on active duty, over 40 per cent are in service on the sea, as members of the Navy, Marine Corps, of Coast Guard. Seventeen men are driving ambulances with the American Field Service in Libya, while a total of 26 graduates are active in various branches of the Canadian and British forces. Six of these are in the R. A. F.

Most recent graduate among the three casualties is Francis S. Parker, '39. He has been serving with the Canadian Army as a member of the Black Watch Regiment, and lost his life in the recent raid on Dieppe. Frederick G. Crocker, '34, who had been a member of the victorious Harvard football team of 1933, lost his life at sea sometime in August. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.

The third graduate to die in action is Edmund Billings '19. Serving as a lieutcommander, he also lost his life in action at sea.