Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-11-26
BELIEVE RANKIN
!. |SST|[[ ALIVE
Local Lieutenant Supposed to
Have Died October 10--Has
Been Heard From Since

Among the kilograms recently re-
! ceived by local people giving official
word of the death or wounding of
relatives is one which seems to be
mistake and is causing much anxiety
among the soldiers many local
friends.
Mrs. II. B. Rankin, of 4Ss John
stone street. received the telegram
last night informing her that her son,
Herbert Rankin. had died of bron-
chial pneumonia and influenza IN
, France on October 10.
The peculiar part of this statement
is the fact that Mrs. Rankin has re-
ceived a letter from her son, dated
October 80, and a postal written on
November 4, nearly a month after ne
was reported to have died.
Another letter, also written by Ran
kin, yas received 1t his nome TINS
morning. The date of this letter IS
November IL, over one month etter
the official statement of his death.
Another fact is that in the telegram
she received he is spoken of as cap
tain" Herbert Rankin, whereas her
son is a second lieutenant and an ad-
jutant in the aviation corps.
II has been learned that there was
a Captain Herbert Rankin, also IN
the aviation corps. who sailed Tor
overseas on the same boat with the
Herbert Rankin from here.
From these facts II would seem
that the department has made an
error and Mrs. Rankin has wireo
Washington and sent cablegram
abroad in an endeavor to find out the
truth.
Herbert Rankin was a graduate OF
the Perth Amboy high school in the
class of 1910 and of the state normal
school at Trenton two years later He
became a manual training Instructor
in the local schools and later held the
same position in the Middlesex county
vocational school here.
Word was received here that Steph-
en- G.. Kazimer, of 331 Alpine street,
was killed in action on October 25.
Kazimer was drafted on February 2S
of this year and went to Camp Dix
with the contingent OF 127 that left
this city in February. He was in
training two months and went across
with Company X of the 311th Infan-
try in May. He was wounded I'm ac--
tion on the Cantigny front and laid
up in a hospital for quite some time
and was then sent back into action.
In the official casualty list as given
out by the government this morning
are the names of Ill New Jersey
ties, some of whom have already been
recorded in these columns, are the
following:
Killed I'm Action s.
Edward w. Franzblau. 16s Hall
avenue, Perth Amboy.
Died of Wounds
John b. Egan. 1877 Madison ave-
nue.. Perth Amboy.
Wounded Severely
Charles j. Wensek, Elm street,
South Amboy.
Slightly Wounded
Royal Daggett, 6718 Amboy road,
Richmond Valley, S. I.
Thomas Kerr Reported Killed.
SOUTH AMBOY, Nov. 26.-Word
has been received in South Amboy
that Lieutenant ThomaslT. Kerr was
killed in action on September 29. No
official notice has been delivered yet,
the news of his death being received
in letter from Kerr's colonel
He was an enlisted man in Company
G of The Seventh New .'ork Infantry
and left South Amboy for Camp
Wadsworth a year ago last September.
He sailed for France on May 10 OF
this year.
Kerr was very well known In both
South Amboy and this city and the
news of his death is a severe blow TO
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