Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-24

ncVs came to his sister. Miss Agnes T.
Malone yesterday from the War De
partment Corporal Malone was tWen-
ty-iivc, trained at Camp Meade and later
at one Of the southern camps. He made
his home with his sister and worked as
a nolder for Moore 4 white, Fifteenth
street and I.ehigh avenue, this city. lie
VAS member Of Company t.. 3oith En-
gineerS.
sergeant r.. Fitzgerald. wounded, is
member OF Company 10. 3ljth Infantry.
In letter his wife, 60I w. tumberland
street. he wrote: 'One OF the boys with
, me while operating a machine gun was
shot through the mouth. While pulling
him away the Huns got me with their
gas. This happened at a. NJ. Six
hours later | woke up on the way to a
hospital ! will be out soon"
Private Clarence 7. Clarke. OF Com
pany G. 309th Infantry, was wounded
September : during the fighting before
Metz. according to Information received
by his mother Mrs. Caroline Clarke,
i63t Sou.h Sixth street. Camden. One
letter and a trench card. written before
the Young soldier was wounded, are the
only recent communications from him
said Mrs. Clarke. He was drafted last
. February. was sent to Camp Dix for
military training and accCinpan! his
division overseas IN May. lie is twenty
J nine years old and unmarried.
Private Harry l.. Wilson, o'icially
reported as missing, is actually in n
gas poisoning. ac-
Listed as Missing. cording to letters
Soldier Eas Cassed reTeiTsd EMS who live u,t as
"a South Thirty
eighth street. Young Wilson enlisted In
the old Third Regiment, \. g; p, in
1915, saw service along the Mexican
! border and was transferred To Company
, n, ION Infantry. lie went overseas
in May of this year. Under dates OF
september 96 he wrote Of his experienc'
With mustard gas. but added that he
was now convalescing in base hospital
lieutenant Thomas y Merryweather,
company f., ll1th Infantry, was shot
through the wrist September G Lieu
tenant Merryweather was student N
an Episcopal theological seminary IN
New York when the Var began. but
promptly left his studies and enlisted IN
'he First Pennsylvania cavalry, later
winning commission at camp Han.
cock His wife Mrs. Eleanor Merry
weather, lives with her mother Mrs
Cornelia Loughridge, 630 West Nenansc
street.
Private samuel :. Longhridge. Com.
pauy 3. / 03d Military Police, was gassed
. August 3, but has recovered and = back
I on duty. He lived with his mother, Mrs
Cornela b. I.oughridge, $50 West Ven
ango. street; before he enlisted
Private Robert Graham. OF company
e. 10th Infantry, reported wounded
!, July ~ wrote his parents. Mr.. and
, Mrs. Thomas Graham. 272a Sears street
that his injuries are no. serious. lie Is
nineteen years old and enlisted in March
1917.
!. CorporaI william 4. Sandal. Of thc
Eighth Corps, Canadian army, was killed
in action on September 80. -Four days
later his wife. who lived at 505s A
street. died of epidemic influenza, leay'
! ing an infant daughter. Corporal San
dali was we'll known in the northwestern
; section of the city, being noted soccer
,, PLAYER and member of the Referees As
. ISOLATION.
l Corporal Joseph II. Maxwell. ll0tl
> Infantry, was wounded In the head 10y
machne-guu bullets ON July 20 He T.
l a Spanish-American War veteran, anC