Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-23
City Soldier Killed
and TlUO Wounded

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! 30. is dead according To A dispatch from
| the International Ped Cross head
! quarters in Geneva. switzerland, re-
ceived by his parents Mr. and Mrs. l..
Deet jen. 6391 Sherwood road, Overhropk
Lieutenant Deetjeu's plane was seen
| to fall in flames within the German
/ lines following an attack by hoChe
+ fiers on the Al'iCd air squadron and the
German War Office reported to the Red
! Cross that the young officer had been
/ Identified and was buried with military
honors at Rothau.
Lieutenant Deetjon was twenty-three
/ years old and unmarried. He was
student in the Wharton School of the
! University Of PENNSYLVANIA when this
! country entered the war. lie left co'leg
! in May took the ground aviation COurs"
at the University of Pittsburgh, was sent
! to England in September of last year
/ and was commissioned a first lieutenant
! in Ma rch of this year. For some weeks
he had been attached to a British aerial
unit and was with an English bombing
| party when he was killed
Private Michael j. Kelly, 5000 Warren
/ street, was killed in action July s. His
! name was not Included in the casualty
/ list at that time. and the first intima-
/ ton of his death was conveyed in
( letter written home by Ralph W. Camp
bell 52l5 Warren street, who was
member Of the sanle. cempasy as Kelly,
. Company VI of the tIfth fFfanfrt.
Dennis Kelly, father of the dead hero.
got in touch with the War Department,
and the death of his son was confirmed.
| Kelly and Francis O'Neil of Allison
street near jefferson, We're killed by the
| same shell according to CampbelIs let
/ ter.
Their company went into the front line
trenches on July :. The Germans had
held the trenches up until three days
! before. and as soon as tn" Americans
| occupied them. the Huns artillery be-
came active. ON July a shell caved in
| a portion of the trench wall directly in
/ front or Kelly and O'Neill, and both We're
killed.
/ Kelly wrote his father a letter, dated
! Ju1y in which he said he expected to
! 90 into the trenches that evening. Kelly
was a member of st. GregorN's Cath
olic church. Fifty-second and Warren
streets: St GregOry's catholic club, and
the r. A. b He was a marathon run
ner and amateur boxer. a memorial
mass will be sung Monday morning al
B q O'Clock,
Kelly enlisted in July, l9l' ana Weh'
TO France last April
Private william Junod, died of wounds
received in action, was just eighteer
wears old when he enlisted in the regular
army in July of last year. He was
trained at Gettysburg and was assigned
10 Company II of the 5Sth Infantry. Hi:
=, ! regiment was sent overseas last winter
, the parents of young JunOd are deat
1 and he made his home with an aunt
Miss Julia Slavin, 347 East Tusculun
street letter received from him las
. week was dated July II and stated tina
= he was well and enjoying army life "tC
the limit
/. Lieutenant whitney Wright, wounded
is the son Of Mr. and Mrs. Samue
Megargee Wright 1903 Walnut street
2 He was commissioned a year ago ant
1 was attached to Company F of the llltt
I Infantry and participated in the fighting
i at Chateau-Therry and in the Franco
e American advance across the Marine
He is suffering from shell shock, ag
e graVated by an attack of appendicitis
= according to a letter to his parents
4 who are now at their summer home II
l. Cape May Lieutenant Wright has beel
$ removed to a Paris hospital.
:. Private John McQuistin, severel
: wounded, comes from line of fightin
s ancestors His grandfather was kille
: in the Civil War, and his father wa
| wounded in the same struggle betwee
the States He had always wanted t
20 into the army himself, but famil
l. reasons made it difficult while he wa
d still a young man, and in the end h
II had settled down to civil life.
l. But when the United States declare
y war on Germany he felt that he coul
e not stay on the side lines. His parent
o were dead, his two sisters were marie
o and so he made for recruiting oftlc
On the first examination he was turne
l' down because of his physical conditio
% but he was not to be denied He cor
l. suited a physician, followed the do
d tors advice TO the letter and in June
,e cepted despite the fact that he ws
l. forty years old and was sent TO For
IS Slocum for training. He proved an al
H. pupil was soon assigned 10 Company
r of the Ninth Regiment OF regulars an
st was sent to France with the first exped
% tionary force. He was wounded durir
a the Franco American counter-attack c
~ July IS: according to a telegram rt
1f ceived' by his sister, Mrs. Jennie Low
1885 South Twenty-fourth street, fro
the War Department last week A fe'
DAYS ago a letter from her brothe
dated July 22, stated that he was In
rs base hospital and was getting along a
IN right McQuiston had been employed 4
"a many years at a chemical plant
~ Gray's Ferry avenue. Besides Mrs Low
re with whom he had made his home, M
& ouiston has another sister, Mrs Georl
a. f. Sullivan. of New Castle, Del.
IA Private Anthony Avilla, missing, el
e listed in the Third Regiment. " G.
!. shortly after the United States enters
q the war. He was sent TO Camp HaI
: coch eyenually placed in Company !