Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-10
IBROTHERS DIE,
WO HURT in WAR
! Russian Gives Four Sons to
Freedoms Cause, One
From Here
~ CIu,X Col DIEQS nEAn
u CITY SOLDIERS DEAD
Fifteen Wounded. One Miss.
ing. Another Reported as Hav-
ing Been Taken Prisoner


Two of the boys were killed during the
flrst year OF the world war. fighting in
the Russian army A third was badly
wounded lust before the Bolsheviki dis
ha uded the troops and there ceased TO
be- any eastern front. The fourth is IA
poldier in the army OF Uncle sam IT..
This last and youngest son was oauly
cut up in the heavy fighting OF Ausust
~ while the Franco American troops
We're pushing the Germans back from
the Vesle. This son has dropped the oin
Russian name, II was too marc 10 sPeli,
let alone pronounce. and he has called
himself Philip Gilman
Enlisted In Third Regiment
Though he was in tins country when
hostilities started. and so was uhaolt
TO get back to Russia without spending
more money than he possessed. ne IVES
enthusia sticaly fo~ the Allied cause ar.
the day after the United states declared
war on GERMANY he enlisted IN the 90
Third Regiment. \. q, T.. nen Ine
Hancock Gilman was transferred to mat
unit and assigned 10 Company q
Cot way Out OF woods
In a recen, letter TO his sister Mrs
Jessie PortnCy. 6o2 Reed street, he said
that he and several comrades had been
trapped in clump or woods bN tns
boches, but had cut their way out anu
v
severely wounded during their dash Tor
: freedom, he added. and had already spent
thirty-three days in hospital, nut eN-
pected 10 get out soon and be N, az tne
hnish OF The Heines. 1.-THE end Is IN
sight" he added. 1T won't be lous now
before the whole German naticn is yell
ing Kamerad in one gigantic, over
whelming chorus.
Thirty three on Combined Lists
Tbirty-three names are on the combin-
"a casual'y lists for this city and dis
trict TODAY. Two Philadelphlans have
been killed in acton. two have died OF
( disease fifteen have been wounded. one
( IL missing and another. previously re-
ported missing is now SAID to be
prisoner. An enlisted man from Lam
caster has died of his wounds and
eleven other soldiers from nearby points
have been wounded
There are 2s3 names on the official list
released for the morning papers today.
Including twenty-one Pennsylvanians.
The afternoon papers list contains sol
names. including fifty-ive from this
State.
Sketches OF the Heroes
LIEUT.. ROBERT ANDREWS DAVIS
killed in action. was the grandson of the
late John Andrews, OF this city, ana
md0e MS HbU1t HcIt lOI iN' gN"is "'''
attending school and college. His pa
rents. MIR. and Mrs. Robert J. Davis. live
At 712 North Fifth street. Reading. Pa,
where Lieutenant Davis was born.
u The young officer. he was only twenty
four years old at the time. entered the
second officers training camp at Fort
4 ORlethorpe. Georgia. last September
B iwraduated with honors the last week In
November and was commissioned Sec
lond lieutenant in the regular army
He was assigned to the headquarters
company of the Eleventh Infantry and
went overseas in the spring Of this year
Soon after reaching France he was pro-
tmoted to. be first lieutenant He was
bond salesman for Baker Aging a
Young, bankers and brokers. when he de-
cided to enter the training camp. While
In this city he lived at 301 South Broad
street.
COLONEL HORATIO Is. Racket,
severely wounded. Is the son of former
Register of Wills and state Senator Ho-
ratio B. Hackett lie is commander OF
the 124th Field Artillery, an Illinois
regiment, and was hurt while serving in
the action before Metz.
Word that he had been wounded came
IN cablegram to his brother, Harry l.
Hackett, 1921 East Cumberland street
II stated: Broken jaw and shrapne
wounds Will be in hospital over a
month"
Colonel Hackett is native Of Ken.
sington. having been educated at the
Hart Grammar School. York street near
Cedar. and subsequently at the william
Penn Charter School. He entered Wes'
Point in 1900 and graduated four years
later. Like his father, he was known as
lssRash" Hackett
The colonel was a star football and
baseball player in his school and college
49, 81. ,ls i
Army eleven for several years. and alsC
Scausht for the baseball team. After
graduating from the military academy
he served for several years az the Army't
representative on the national football
rules committee
Some years ago the colonel retire,
nom the army, and after a course o
civil engineering at the University o
Pennsylvania practiced his profession II
this city. When the war broke out h
Uttered his services to the Adjutant Gen
erals Department at Harrisburg. but re
fused an offer for a second lieutenanc,
E and went to Illinois. where he was com
misisoned a colonel. Before going l.
France last May his regimen. was IL
Training at Fort Worth. Tex. Colon.
Hackett Is married, but has no children
PRIVATE WILLIAM GRENNOR
wounded is the first of seven young mer
All boyhood friends. who lived in tn
same neighborhood in West PHILADELPHIA
and enlisted on the same day. to appea
In the casualty lists
The "Roxtown gang" they calle
themselves and they had run together
since they were tiny kids. on July 2
Of 1917 they went down to the armory a
IThirty-second and Market streets an
heniisted In the old Sixth Regiment y. &
r.. first stipuating that they be place
in the same company. The promise wa
( kept and they were assigned TO Compan
L. When the Sixth was rsorganiz
4 info the 1lith Infantry they still mar
aged to stick together. They have see
some hard fighting. but escaped ur
ocafhed until late in August. when Grer
+ nor got his" He is twenty-one year
HERGEANT THOMAS y. REED. Off
& sally reported severely wounded for
meriy boarded at 2105 Arch street VI
was q reticent man. the landlady sale
and beyond mentioning that he halle
from the Pacific coast had never tslke
cORPORAL JOHN y. CLEARy. r.
ported severely wounded. lived with hi
akepfather. William Rsu. 242l Sout
amac street. he is a member OF tn
Io8th Machine Gun Battalion Whe
ouly sixteen years old he enlisted an
HoW service on the Mexican border. Afte
{ IwGudtng several months al Camp Han
+ <ock he sailed for France last May
KUlyATE WILLIAM HAGA>, who
T9ported wounded during September /
X member OF Company A, l09th Machin
Hun Battalion. He lived at 42s Shun
&<roof and In a recent letter hone sal
16af he had been shot IN the cheek bu
1 Mnn glad he was out OF the hospital an
4Gain able 40 take crack at the dirt