Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-11

OeGoDs Wounded

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WILLIAM " GEORCE x.
o5,s SSSS,t0T y ,,SoTas F0D6HeHvee COPE 'I,1e
time to spoil the first substantial meal
| he had sat down to in three days. And
! had .. piece of good PIE IN my mana
| when that shell went of, he added.
| Private Taylor is twenty years old,
enlisted In July Of last year in the 1881
| Engineers and was assigned TO Company
| B. He is married and has a wife and
| baby, both living with his mother at the
| Thompson street address brother,
4. b. Taylor, is a chief yccman In thu
| navy.
SERGEANT JAMES T.. McANENY,
| who died of pneumonia on August 2S,
was victim of the epidemic influenza.
| He contracted thH disoas" at a port OF
| andihg in France, became very III on ths
train while bound for a base camp. had
| to be taken off and sent to Il hO-pisl At
Rennes and died TWO days later. Ile
was attached to the medical corps OF
the 4l6th supply Train. ana was tor-
mer chief clerk of the bureau "f Heal h
| of this city. His mother lives at 629
| North Thlrty-sevcnth street Sergeant
| McAnenys death was unoilicially re-
ported last week, and was confirmed by
the official list today
SERGEANT HERBERT MILLER.
cid and the son Of Mrs Cccelia CandeC,
of 45i6 Hopes street His father was
the late Jacob f.. Miller, for many years
lieutenant of the Thirfy-ninth street and
| Lancaster avenue police station. Ser
| geant Miller enlisted ia Api! of 1871.
shortly Hafter the United States entered
The war and was assigned to company
H. Fifty-eiEhth Infantry In the only
letter received from the young soldier
he told of seeing a troop ship torpedoed
near France and number of soldiers
| drown.
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK Is.
PRICHETT. who died OF wounds on
September Z. was the son Of Major Will
| liam B. PriChett ana Fannie Wilson
prichett, 1909 Monument road, North
| Wynnefield
Neither his parents nor his wifG, Who y ih,'
Rhoads. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. y.
Clinton lthoads, i5l2 Chestnut street
had known that he had been wounded,
Their frat news Of the death of the
lieutenant came in the form of tele-
gram from Washington, which was re
Ceived last Monday night and which
stated the bare fact that he had died OF
wounds and the date.
Lieutenant Prichett was attached tc
Battery A, l09th Field Artillery whlci
is one of the three regiments of artillery
IN the Fifty-third F'ielu Artillery Brigade
of the Twenty-eight Ckeystone) Divi-
sion. The 1O9th Field Artillery was Gre
ated at the Mexican border from the ole
Thirteenth Infantry. but its designation
at that time was the Third Artillery Reg.
iment of the Pcnnsylvania Nationa
Guard. II is commanded by Colone
Asher Miner, formerly commander o
, tho Thirteenth Infantry
The last letter received from Licutcn
ant Prichctt was written during TN
night of August 3O-3l during a lull il
} the fighting and hc described hiWself a
being "in the thick Of it."
The dead ieutenants father. Majo
| Prchett. who Is attached to the ord
nance department of the army, has wire'
to Washington for full particulars a
Nto the death of his son. The lieulenan
was twcnty-seven years old and wa
T commissioned at the third officers train
ing camp at Camp Hancock. lie wa
one of the members of the First ca,
Troop to be selected for the trainini
camp and, upon receiving the ComHis
= sion. was assigned to the artillery.
Lieutenant Prchett was graduate >
= the William Penn Charter school an
-, of the University Of Pennsylvania, clas
4 Of 1913 He was ivy orator and elias
, officer, and during his course at the Uni
vorsity won II number of academi
: | honorS
He was married in May, 1916. to Mis-
: Rhoads, who is widely known as
!, volunteer social worker. She was I
y charge of the Baby Welfare Office I
the city Han, when it was establish
: ed In 1914, and was active in man
4 E'Re' inR the ''S woGdIng h' the Young % coupi
. !
:. moved to Cleveland, o., wnere the
Il remained until the outbreak of the wa
They returned TO Philadelphia. an
: while the husband enlisted in the Firs
( City Troop the wife went to her par
:. ents home and took special course /
y Red Cross nursing at the Presbyteria
s Hospital She had planned eventual
to follo% her husband TO France.
. When the First city Troop went {
. Camp Hancock, Lieutenant Prichett ha
a as a companion trooper his brOther-in
o law, Il. Brewster Rhoads but they wer
II transferred into different branches {
d the service when the War Dcpartmer
s. disbanded Pennsyivania's cavalry reg
ment
d CORPORAL RAYMOND MORRIS
u wounded was one of the hundred me
y who. led by Captain William william
y swan the Ncslc River during the Franco
$ American attack Of August IL.
I, He comes Of fighting stock, his Grant
y father, Captain Robert B. Pollock, bein
Is veteran Of the Civil War and h
a grandfather having served
! the Revolutionary war, He cnl, ,sted
the old Third Regiment n. G. p in 191
.s served through the Mexican border can
10 paign and went to France as a men
ie Der of Company II, 109th Infantry. II
Z was promoted for gallantry In actiO
rt and was wounded in the hand by
A. machine-gun bullet during the last wee
in in August
es PRIVATE IOIIN j.. O'NEIL, official
* reported as having died of wounds {
Il August 30 mas written several letters
" his mother, Mrs, Patrick O'Neil, 49,
Or West willard street since his suppose
~ demise. lie spoke of having been hu
ny in action, but said he was rapidly. r
"A covering His family refuses TO belle,
he that he II dead and is convinced that q
We War Department has confused q
ck young soldier with some other enlist'
mt man named O'Neil He was drafted la
H. September and eventually assigned
nd Company e, SiNticth Infantry.
ar CORPORAL T. l.. LANDENBERGE
We unoiiicially reported as having died
he wounds, L. me first drafted man fro
!, the BriGesburg district to lay down Il
f. life for his country, He was n memb
Is of Company /, 3l5th Infantry, and /
of regiment was attached TO the famo
a Seyenty-ninth Division. which did SUI
er gallant work during the iiattening of &
'e- st. Mihiel salient. Corporal Lande
Is bergers parents live at 2729 Bucki
on street.
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