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the first American soldiers TO land in
France. sailing early in December,
He was attached to a machine gun
battalion and 1t is believed he fell in the
fighting along the Marine, when the
Franco American troops began their
countcr-offensive. A letter from the Red
Cross in France received few days
ago announced that Alfred. who was a
member of Company G. 3Oth Infantry,
fel in the fighting near Mezy on July Ii.
Another brother Joseph A. Woke soon
expects to be drafted. He is twenty
years old and registered last week. Be-
fore he went to Conshohocken, Alex
ander. with his three brothers kept n
newspaper and magazine stand at Six
teenth and Market streets The older
brother. Angelo. has since established
the Philadelphia Boot Black Supply
Company at 1870 North Fifteenth street,
and he expected to take the boys into
partnership after the war.
Private Charles McMenamy was killed
in action while fighting with the 167th
Company of the Fifth Regiment of ma =
rines. according to the official casualty
list published this afternoon. Hes.was
only eighteen years of age. having en-
listed a year ago. just after reaching
his seventeenth birthday. He is the son
of Joseph F.. McMenamy, s515 Frankford
avenue. Holmesburg. Before entering
the nations strvlce he was a student
Private John McQuiston, of Mar
berth, was killed in action July IS in
France. according to word received here.
His bride of year lives at their Mar
berth home. McQuiston was twenty
i lN,cz L..
lected for the National Army year ago
was employed in a garage in Narberth.
Before his marriage he was at the Mex
lean border with the National Guard.
He left the service upom-his return. and
was later drafted. =. Three brothers are
in the service. They are Samuel, Hugh
and James McQuiston.
Lieutenant Cornelius T. Mccarthy. L.
s. army medical corps. attached to the
British army has been slightly gassed
in France. News that he was victim
has just been received here with the
announcement that he has been awarded
second military cross.
He is believed to have been the first
American honored with the British Mill
tary Cross No information as to the
exact deed that is responsible for his
second decoration has reached here.
Lieutenant Mccarthy, whose home in
this city Is 8 South Thirty-eighth street
is now in Backpool, England, recuperat-
ing, as he writes from the effects OF
the gas the boche shot into me-
Private Thomas Murphy. killed, lived
with his aunt, Mrs. Mary Kelly, l34l
North Fifty-sxth street. He was
twenty-four and enlisted in July. 1917
in the old sixth Regiment, n. G. p, Ur
to the time of his death on August II
he WAS a member Of Company B, 1llth
Infantry. In recent letters to his sister
Miss Nan Murphy. he stated that tht
German losses were heavy and the dead
piled eight and ten feet deep. brother
Forrest is in France with a medica
! unit.
| Private Amos 4. Conrad, twenty-five
years old. So North Sixty-second street
died July 10 from wounds received II
action according to a telegram received
by his mother, Mrs. C. F.. Burgner, Mon
day. from the War Department Conrad
was a marine of the Eighteenth Com
pany Second Battalion. Fifth Regiment
He enlisted in July 1914, and served
at Vera Cruz, Mex. He sailed fol-
| France IN January. A wife, whom HI
married in November. and two sisters
survive him, Prior to enlistment HI
| worked as a niCkelplater in Boyertown
Private John Preston, twenty-hv
years old. mens oned in Canada
casualty lists as wounded, Is she so
! OF James Preston. 1858 Sullivan stree
Germantown. Preston was wounded /
the left arm and is confined TO Genera
Hospital No. 20. Camiers. France, ac
cording to information received fror
| the Director of Records, Ottawa, Can
ada, by Mr.. Preston Preston enliste
here during the recent drive for Cana
dians and Brt!shers. He was born II