Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-25
Serst LOUIS 10 sAsSO Gorp GERRY ROBRT ANDERSON
hissin GILLESPIE

DAVID q. CAIN.
Mi seirS. =.
Missing

Mi ssinS... Mi sing
pIaincd that he was NOT receiving his
mail He is tw"nty-seNen years old.
the Oldest of eleven children of Mr.. and
Mrs Michael Gillespie. 1913 De kalb
street.
Private Robert l.. Anderson. of Com
pany X. 1llth Infantry. reported missing
in action. was, before he volunteered an
empoyc Of the Bureau of city Property.
city Han lie is thirty-hve years old
and married his wife. Mrs Fila Ander-
sen. living at S26 North Ringgod street.
There is one child. Clifford seven years
Cd. Private Anderson served with the
old Sixth Regiment on the Mexican Dor
der. and remained in service when his
regiment was merged into the 1l1th
Infantry. Mrs Anderson had a letter
from him. dated August s. in which he
stated he had come through several bat
Ties WithOUi injury and expected to re-
turn to the trenches. The Government
bulletins him as missing August -.
Lieutenant Walter Baker. gasscd on
July %. is RAPIDLY recovering in a base
hospital. according TO a letter to his
parents Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas = Baker,
59l9 Market street.
the army TO get through the fighting on
July % without being killed." he said.
"On the morning of that day "A bullet
went through my cantcen \ little
later Il bullet went through the sleeve
of my shirt but never touched me. In
the afternoon ! was wearing my slirker
and the tail of ii was taken off by a
piece Of German shrapneI. So YOU can
see how lucky | was. \ bit later /
was gaSaed.
The doctor says ! eau reioin my
company in "A week or so They can
talk of all the "ivl wars in the world
but that was only checker game COM
pared to this scrap. But | don't he
lieve il will last much longer You
have probably S""n by the papers how
We have chased them. and our division
has been one OF the big factors in this
victory. Everybody has the hunch tina,
it will he Il case Of 'H"ll Heaven ni
home hy chr stmas." as General Per-
shiue is reported to have said"
l.i.utemanr Baker is a graduate Of the
West Philadelphia High School and en-
listed in the Third Regiment. ~ G. r.
in May of 1917. In January of this year
hr was admitted to tn" officers training
camp At Camp Hancock ANA graduated
ia Apr.l AZ he was not yet of age he
could no; he commissioned until he had
attained his majOritN. - went to France
in May with the headquarters company
lInth InrHntry, aS a cadet officer lie
received his commission in July.
Corporal Norman :. Phillips. son OF
Mr. and Mrs. William II. Phillips. 32i
south Fifth street Darby. Pa. is re-
ported 10 have been KILLED in action ir
France. lie was only seventeen years
w., ,,;t' ''" " ,,, p",,nIio,, ''''''"''' -
Private feter iaN'hu<k'. oil'pahE y
NiniA Aa'hlhe tuA hal.an"t. was
GiS5ed on NusHS' w. at'ofu''s I" 'e'
''i ne wrote 10 NJ o'o,uer % '"ar , was re,
Z, Neu liz, u'S "e ,,s,,', 2" ", III,
,n.,. ,,", a,,d ,h,t ~, win snou no A,
,tti,,, ,,, v.nr c.artad pasrbuz
- m,. T.. r,irinr tn,yr in western
,,a,,,.'.,..,.,,,,', 10 ,.nr,a tn bis brother',
I,,,,,,,. b,.r. aud later eulisIed in this city
''i ,,o,.m - this rnnrtrv oniv Az,
,.,,,s 'ro,rlrg rrn,u pussia. Ills brother
;, qo9- :, i,n,es nIace pete
~ .,d In 1ha annual lis, as seyerel,
u 'vi'p. 1,, ,'' ~
N"u''"
private fhiiip ne fan'", - Nj ~
H,NtA iu"i W. Hii n;ti NJ cnnnEade
~, Ean,In,", IIi+h Infantry accnrdin,
~ ward rereiyed from him by his par
ents In the letter he tells of the safety
Of two of his companions who were los
tour days from theIr Co'hh'""u'
Private Frank Contriciano, 6ilS Vim
street, reported severely wounded by tn,
War Department. is one of the mel
mentioned in the letter written by ID
Fabio. Contriciano is 20 years old
pr;xats Daniel CeIIucci, twenty-fiy,
Years old. POS North Sixty-fourth street
also listed AS severely wounded, is TIN
other
Both boys were with De Fabo il
company l.. DeFabio, who is onl!
nineteen years old, wrote TO his parent
that the boys from the neighborhoo'
are al right"
"-rhe last time We wen, over the TO
on AUGUST II we were separated fror
the rest Of the command and roamed a
over France for four days before W