Popular Drill Sergeant a Victim of Spanish Influenza at Camp Dix.

Sergeant Eugene Joseph Bernard Breen, son of Policeman and Mrs. Michael Breen, of Hackensack, died in the hospital at Camp Dix yesterday of Spanish Influenza.

Mrs. Breen and Miss Florence Breen were with the young man at the time of his death

Sergeant Breen, better known as "Major" Breen, was perhaps one of the best known young men in Hackensack. He was 26 years old and had served three enlistments in old Company G, Fifth Regiment, going to the Mexican border with his company during the trouble there. He was the tallest man in his Regiment.

At the outbreak of the war with Germany, Breen left Hackensack with Company G on March 20, 1917, and did guard duty in a number of places in this State. On Sept. 26th, 1917, the regiment left for Camp McClellen, at Anniston, Ala., where he stayed until January of this year, at which time he was honorably discharged from the United States service because of a slight physical defect.

In the early part of the summer, Breen was drafted into the National Army and sent to Camp Dix at Wrightstown, where he was rapidly advanced in rank from private to Corporal and then to Drill Sergeant, which rank he held at the time of his death.

Sergeant Breen was ambitious for a commission and was working hard to attain one and on his last visit to Hackensack told his father that he was expecting it at any time.

No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral, as it is not known just when the body will arrive here.