Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-29
Sketches of the Heroes

private John b. Scott, Eddystone.
wounded.
Sketches OF the Heroes
Private George u. Koch. Company u
lO9th Infantry, reported severelS IN,
iured July 20. is the son OF Mr.. ana
Mrs. William Koch. 235 pin street
His parents last heard from him on
Julv 81. He said he had been in the
! thick of the fighting.
Koch enlisted on July 2. 1917. in the
First Regiment. n. q. p, and went to
Camp Hancock. He left for France
last May. 4 brother. william Koch.
twenty-five years bid. will leave Tor
camp with the selected men next Mon
day. Before enlisting, George Koch was
employed as a timekeeper by the Hopes
& Townsend Company, Broad and
"Buttonwood streets,
Private Conner Sykes. officially re-
ported as missing In today's casualty
list. has rejoined his regiment and. APP
parently. was not even wounded at the
time he was supposed to have dtsap-
peared following some fierce fighting on
July 5.
on August 90 his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. George Sykes, @Nli North Fifteenth
street. received a Telegram from the
War Department saying their son had
been missing since July ;. A few days
before this message came two letters
arrived from young Sykes, one dated
July 2S. the other July 80. Both spoke
Of the heavy fighting but said he was
getting along all right.
Sykes was drafted with the first con-
tingent from his district and sent to
Camp Meade last September, After three
weeks there he was picked. along with a
number of others. TO 20 to Camp Ham
cock and help fiji up the ranks Of the
new 10th Infantry. being assigned to
Company l.. He was twenty-three years
old and a stationary engineer by trade.
It is a curious coincidence that three
other men OF Company NJ. the 10th In
fantry. listed as missing by the War
Department hav written to their FAM
lilies either that they were in French hos
pitfalls or had reioined their companies.
Lieutenant Walter =. Bates. severely
wounded and suffering from gas poison
ing. ~ twenty-five years old and the
son of Walter S. Bates. n patrolman OF
the SiXty-irst and Thompson streets
station. A grandfather fought in the
Civil War. while his great-grandfather
was forced to flee from Scotland because
of devotion to the Stuarts.
Young Bates enlisted as n private
when the Mexican trouble began in 1915
and saw service on the border. He was
made a corporal a month after his en-
iistment and n sergeant a month later,
and a top sergeant in April. 1917. He
was commissioned a lieutenant at
Camp Hancock just before he sailed for
France in May of the present year.
In a letter to his wife, who lives Mt
II North St. Bernard street. he said
that he had been through hell but had
passed the critical stage now and would
recover.
Private Clarence Hartshorn. who Is
officially reported severely wounded. en-
listed in the old Seventy-fourth Regi-
ment. of New York. and was s.nt to
SpartRnsburg. s. g, for his military
training. Hartshorn, who was a fireman
on the New York Central Railroad,
was in Buffalo at that time and joined
the service in that city. From Spar
tanSburg he was transferred to New
port News. and from there he sailed
FOR France as a member of Company 4,
lO2 Engineers. in May.
The last letter was received from him
on August 2. He was the on the firing
line and spoke rather contemptuously Of
the barbed wire entanglements and the
shelling of the Germans.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. william
- ''"' sun H., VI iuf- ullD street, ana
has two brothers, one of whom Is with
a motor-truck company in France. The
wounded soldier is twenty-three years
old.
Private John Rodgers. now reported n
prisoner. was previously reported as
missing by the official casualty list. He
is only nineteen years of age and en-
listed in July of last year. joining the
First Regiment. n. g. p. He was sent to
Camp Hancock. where he was assigned
to the l09th Infantry, Company NJ. He
went to France early last May. Before
his enlistment he lived with his sister.
Mrs. Elizabeth Kunklc. Sixty-ffth street
and Chester avenue. and was employed
at the Crucible Steel Works. Lansdowne.
An elder. brother, Bernard II. Rodgers.
forty-nine years old. was formerly In
the service and a week ago tried to
enlist again. but was rejected on ac-
count of his age. Another brother.
James, twenty-one, will be in the next
draft.
Private Anthony Peiry. missing. is
twenty-three years old and formerly
lived at $3.50 Hurley street. Born in
Servia, his parents brought him to this
country when he was nine years old
He was an automobile maChinist. but
enlisted two months after the United
states entered the war, choosing the
regular army, and was assigned to Com
pany X of the Thirty-eighth Infantry.
Private Jack Brody. missing, lived at
l0l Chestnut street, Camden. but ran
a newsstand at Seventeenth and Arch
streets. this city. He enlisted in the
old Third Regiment, y. G.. p. in July
of last year, was trained at Camp Han
cock, attached to the 10th Infantry and
sent to France in May last, His father,
Solomon Brody, received a telegram last
night saying that the young soldier had
been missing since July %.
Private Francis A.. Cole, previously
reported missing. is really wounded anC
in a base hospital. according to a lette,
from Private Joseph Shuman. Of the
marine corps. to young Coles mother
Mrs. Ida V. Cole. Of North Wales. While
visiting a COmrade in the base hospital
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