Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-16
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to message received today by his father
at the Windsor Hotel. Cape May.
The message said he had been killed in
action July 10. He was an officer of
Company *, 10th Infantry. The bro
theirs reported killed. Sergeants Edmund
NJ. Knight and Frederick Fl, Knight. 1873
North Si&ty-second street were mem
bers of the same regiment and company.
Lieutenant Bullitt was commissioned
soon after his twenty-second birthday
last spring. He enlisted here in May,
1917, in the First City Troop. pennsyl-
vania Cavalry, after coming from De-
troit.'
At Camp Hancock, Ga, where the
Twenty eighth Division was encamped,
the First City Troop was made into
an infantry unit. Lieutenant Bullit.,
then a private. was assigned to he
third officers training camp and was one
of seventy out of 1000 in the camp to
be commissioned.
Went Abroad in May
Lieutenant Bulitt went to France
May .. and on July IS Went into action.
On the day before his command went
into battle. he wrote letter to his
father while in n dugout near the front
and under heavy German shell fire. He
He told his father he expected 10 go
into action and said he was eager for
the fray. Members of his command,
he said, were also eager to fight. The
day after going into his action he was
killed.
He was a graduate of the Episcopal
Academy and the tniVersitv Of Penn
sylvania and was a member of st.
Dominick's Catholic Church, Holmes
burg.
a. M
of Richard Stockton, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence, and
of Commodore Robert Field Stockton
L. S. n. He was "A great grandson OF
David Paul Brown, celebrated criminal
lawyer of Pennsylvania, and grandson
of Major William Rawle Brown. L. ).
VI. c., and John &. Bullitt. author of
the charter under which the present
government of the City of Philadelphia
was established.
His sister. Miss Maria Stockton But-
litt was killed in the wreck Of the White
Mountain express five years ago. Sev-
eral other prominent Philadelphians loSt
their lives.
Private Walter }. Kirk. killed in ac-
ton July 80 was only nineteen years
old, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas +.
Kirk He enlisted in the old Third
Regiment y. q. r: in March OF IVY
when he still lacked month OF being
eighteen years old. For while he was
on guard Gvty at Washington. Pa, but
later was sent to Camp Hancock and
vas assigned to detachment sent TO
France last fall.
A ,e,ter received from him early this
week was dated July 27, only two days
before he met his death. In IT he said
word had come down the line from Cen
eral PeTshing that 1t would be case OF
Heaven, He'll or Hoboten" by christ
mas of this year personally ne
added. 81 hope its Hoboken for mine.
Fc asked his family TO be sure ana
send hum some candy and cigarettes
! right away. as he was starving for
! eouething sweet and for the makin's.
The knight brothers were veterans OF
! the Old Third Pennsylvania Infantry
! They saw four years OF service III inc
PENNSYLVANIA National Guard ana wheI
! their enlistment expired July ", lsi
! they did not hesitate TO re-enlist. Iheil
! deaths occurred on the same day-JuiS
! 3O-just one year and ten Gays ai'e'
they decided to re-enllst
| side nv side in the same company
as the Pennsylyania troops-the Key
| Stona Diyision-.drove back the enem!
and forced passage of the Vesle Rive'
| on that day they hurled themselNe'
upon the Germans. ,-r,.z
one after the other fell--both kiiieo'
Mrs. Mary Kahn, 1873 North SiXty-sec
ond street, is the mother OF tne nefoes
horh of whom were natives OF Wharie
dale. England, which gave them dou
BILE interest in the war.
sergeant Edmund NJ. Khght wa
twenty-three years old, meihDer
Company X, 10th Infantry.
Sergeant Frederick II. kniGm wa
tventv-four years old. He was lnarrie'
and Is survived by widow, MIS- Mar
Knight A brother. Eric Knight, is hgnt
ing under the British flag with the ff''
c<ss Pat Regiment of Canadians.
private George W. Cory, reporte'
missing since the heavy fighting OF 1uis
Ib is twenty-one years old and the sol
Of John Cory, a district detective OF LII
Germantown station. poai
mont. PENNSYLVANIA National Guare u
June 1916. and saw service on the MeN.