Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-06
z City Soldiers
Dead; Z Wounded
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wounded on July 80 last. but the official
casualty lists from washington have
as yet made no mention of their names
The author of the letter. Supply Ser
geant Charles McFadden, 3rd, also
asserts in his latest letter that the
Old First was virtually wiped out
that of twelve infantry companies hardly
enough men were left to make up one
company.
when this reaches you. the State of
Pennsylvania will be in mourning" he
wrote.
Wayne Man wounded
In the casualty lists for today. that
include the names Of 744 American SOL
diers. seven Philadelphans are reportc i
wounded, as we'll as resident OF Wayne,
Pa, who gained the commission of
lieutenant since entering the service.
Two of the Philadelphians wounded are
lieutenants.
Another man from here has been
gassed.
Two men from this city are listed as
missing. one of them while fighting with
the Canadian army. One of the local
wounded Is also named in the latter list
The casualty list issued by the War
Department for publication in the morn
ing newspapers contains 3S2 names, in
Guiding those OF twenty-nine Phladel-
phians. Sixteen men from this State are
reported among the 362 soldiers in the
casualty list published in the afternoon
papers.
The list of wounded and missing fol-
lows
WOUNDED
Lieutenant Joseph X. Winokur. 1741
North Thirty-second street.
Lieutenant James u. Koontz, 272S
West Somerset street.
Sergeant william Jcneffes, 5o13
Wayne avenue. Germantown.
Private Ferdinand J. Sauvngeot, 4447
sherwood street. Manayunk.
Private Daniel J. Gleason, 1852 North
Taylor street.
Private Edward +. Mcdonald, 4222
Hicks street.
Private G. W. Wood. Canadian army
GASSED
Corporal Lamar Christ, 1919 North
Alden street.
MISSING
Private william J. Bauer, 14oS North
Philip street
Private r. r. King. Canadian army.
FROM NEARBY POINTS
lieutenant William II. McCutcheon,
1876 Walnut avenue, Wayne. wounded
Sketches OF Heroes
Lieutenant InDmHS FnIeS, widely
known crcketer and nephew of John
Wanamaker. fell at the head of his
company. according to an official report
received here today. He Is said to have
been shot six times. once through the
lungs and five times through the abdo
men.
The report of his death is contained
in letter received here by Charles Nc
Fadden, Jr.. 1882 Walnut street, from
his son. Charles McFadden. Sd, a suppl,
sergeant of Company NJ, 1O9th Infantry
! The report of his death and that o
Lieutenant Coward Is confirmed b,
Lieutenant Wilson Stephenson, 144!
Cayuga street. of Company T. who /.
| now in this city to act as an instructor
Lieutenant Fales. who Is the son q
| the late Mrs. Mary w. Fales. 44O'
Spruce street was cited for valor on tn,
| hatt efieid during the defense of tn,
Marne about the middle of July.
Lieutenant Fales was thirty-two year!
old and a graduate of .he University o
Pennsylvania. Before enf'sting he wa!
member of the firm of Fales &
| butcher.
He was reported wounded on July 80
| his family received word to that effec
from letters written here by member
OF his company. They were unable t,
confirm the report in Washington
Neither his name nor that of Lieutenan
Coward has appeared in the officia
! casualty list.
| Lieutenant Edward II. Coward, 161,
North Marshall street. was a newspa pc
man of this city before he enlisted II
the service Information to the effec
that he was killed Is contained in tn,
his son. Writing Of the death of Lieu
! tenant Coward, Sergeant McFadder
! said:
He was put in command of our com
pany, with Lieutenant Faes. a pal o
! mine from the officers training school
as second in command. After two day
of fighting through the woods, we ha,
to advance down HILL across a smal
river and up another hill. all in the open
The boche were entrenched aroun,
the edge of a wood with bunch of ma
chine guns and he gave us h. W
took the woods, but in doing so Lieuten
ants Coward and Fales were killed
Coward was hit once in each shoulde
and a couple of times in the stomach
II his name Is published in the papers
tell dad to call up his father and tel
him that Eddie died at the head of hi
men and that his men would have gon
through h for him
He was considered one of the braves
men in the regiment and had YER
rosy future before him. He is burie
where he fell. on the side of a hill nea
Gourmant.
"Our American graves are marked wit
a small wooden cross, with the soldier
identification tag tackled on 1t. Fale
was killed and buried near the sam
place"
Lieutenant Coward was reporte
wounded in action on July 80 in a forme
! letter received from Sergeant McFad
den. The War Department has no con
firmation of the report of Lieutenan
Coward having been wounded.
The last letter received from the lieu
tenant by his mother, Mrs. Mary Cow
i, observing officer "in busy sector" bu
had been relieved and was then in tn
rear. This was before the time fiXe
, by Sergeant McFadden as the day whe
: he was killed.
Sergeant Edward II. Foley is reporte,
to have been killed on the firing line II
France in a Letter received by his mother
r Mrs. Margaret Foley, AIS North Sixty
, second street. from a private who wa
In the soldiers company. This deaf
has separated two Philadelphia boy
! who had been chuns for years.
, The message came from Private d.
l Corcoran, Company NJ. Sixteenth Infan
try. He and Foley were fighting side b
side when a shell struck the latter an
he fell.
Corcoran's home in this city is a
Westminster avenue and Stafford stree