Harvey Gaul Award of the State Federation of Music Clubs (established while he was alive) 1947: Friends of Harvey Gaul, Inc., contest administrator and sponsor 1960: Friends of Harvey Gaul, Inc., and the Carnegie Institute of Technology Department of Music, contest co-administrators and cosponsors 1980: The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, contest administrator and sponsor Harvey Bartlett Gaul married Harriette Lester Avery (b.
Naval Reservist Lieutenant, he died by German firing squad in late January 1945 at the Mauthausen Concentration Camp near Linz, Austria.
He had been captured by the Germans during a combat mission in Czecho-Slovakia, a country where he had worked as an archeologist.
[3] The President of the United States presented him with the Distinguished Service Cross (Posthumously).
[4] Harvey Gaul died December 1, 1945, of injuries from an auto accident.