Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-07
FIFTEEN PHILADELPHIA SOLDIERS
IN TODAY'S CASUALTY LIST

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Private Walter Connison, 2405 Stewart
street
Private benjamin Freeman, 1850
North Twenty-seventh street.
MISSING
Sergeant John Joseph Shnnahan, 22s
North Hicks street.
REPORTED MISSING.
NOW BACK IN ACTION
Private John r. Tobin, 755 North Thir-
ty-eighth street.
8. +. shields, canadian army.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING,
NOW REPORTED WOUNDED
Private Daniel $. Morrow, 609 South
Hancock street.
FROM NEARBY POINTS
Lieutenant Harold speakman. Mar
berth. Pa. killed.
Private Harry O'Hara. East Main
street, Norristown; died from wounds
Private Elmer Fleming, East Oak
street, Norrstown; wounded.
n. j.; Previously reported killed; now
back on duty.
Private Walter J. Brown. of Lansdale /;
missing.
Private Luigi Sfrattone, 215 Hours
street. Chester: wounded.
Sketches of the Heroes
Lieutenant Henry Howard Houston.
ed, listed in today's casualty list as
died of wounds was unofficially re-
ported killed in action in the newspapers
of August 2S. His home was in Chest
nut Hill.
Private John Joseph Grejber. bO2
South Water street, was reported un-
officially killed in action on September
.. Today he is listed officially among
the soldiers who died of wounds.
Lieutenant Harold Speaiman, son of
w. f. Speakman, of Narberth. Pa, has
teen killed in action In France. accord
ing to word received today by his father
Lieutenant Speakman is the first Mar
berth soldier to lose his life in France.
He was a member of the 1l2th In
fantry. and before sailing for France
trained at camp in Indiana and later
at Camp Hancock He received the COM
mission of a second lieutenant just be-
fore his regiment sailed for France. lie
fore his regiment sailed for france.
Yesterday. If he had lived, he would
have celebrated his twenty-third pirth'
dav. Word of his death was received in
a
by a sergeant in the lieutenants COM
pany under the date OF August 3. Be-
fore entering the service. Lieutenant
Speakman was employed by the Abra-
sive Materials Compony. of Bridesburg
| Private Joseph Henry LandOn, Com
pany G, 308th Infantry. has given MS
| full measure of devotion to his country
Word Of his death was received yester'
day in a telegram from the war De
partment to his parents. Mr. and MRS
Henry Landon, of 3O6 Seventy-eightf
street. Brooklyn, N. Y, notifying then
that he was killed in action on Augus
la. Before entering the service he wa!
employed as riveter at the Philadel
mia Nayy Yard and was well known ir
this city.
| Landon who was twenty-eight years
old, was drafted and sent to Camp Up
ton He went overseas short time ago
A brother, George, is also in France
with the 106th Infantry.
| Joseph Landon was prominent In ath
letics. especially baseball. He was q
member at various times of Brooklyn's
leading baseball teams. Besides his par
ents and the brother mentioned, ht
leaves three more brothers, Alfred, Her
bert and Robert and four sisters, MRS
May Coleman, Mrs. Loretta Nasil Mrs
Giliis and Miss Veronica Landon.
Private Edmund SlOOk. the son o.
George Slook, an employe of the office o.
the Recorder Of Deeds at City Hall. pre-
yiously reported as missing in action
met death on the battlefield, accordint
to a letter received from another sol
who was serving in the same company
Private Daniel J. Morrow, who wa
reported missing on July 30 Is wounde
and now in a base hospital in France
according to a letter received here b
his father, John Morrow, sos Sout
Hancock street. The soldier writes tina
he is recovering rapidly.
TT was a lucky shot for me-" h
writes in telling of his wound. "A littl
more and l would have been a 'goner
But will soon get better and give tn
! Kaiser another shot
Morrow Is only nineteen years old an
enlisted in April Of last year In til
Third Regiment that became the ll0t
| Infantry. He has q brother in the sery
ice.
Priystt BENJAMIN Freeman was gasse
on July 16. just year after ne wa
Hcalled for active service with the oil
First Regiment. n. @, r. lie is recov
ering in base hospital No. 6, which.
near Bordeaux, France, according TO lei
ters received from him by his wife, Mrs
Sadie Freeman, 1850 North Twenty-se,
enth street. In his latest letter, write
August s, he said he expected to be ir
valided home shortly.
! His first letter after being taken
the hospital was written on July 2, an
in il he praised the work OF the Re
: Cross in the hospitals IF YOU .ev'
; make any contributions to anything J
) told hN wife, make 1t to the Re
Cross for they certainly have treated m
like king" Es'
With his body. covered with blister
) from the gas, he said he was In almo
intoIerabie pain when he reached II
hospital, but that after the doctors ha
treated him he was greatly relieved. Il
: also said he was affected Internally b
I the gas but that this was not serious
. In his letter of August he said
0 was recovering from temporary blin'
ness caused by the gas. and that h
: heyes would be we'll soon He aga
: praised the Red Cross workers for n
Z Treatment In the hospital. and told of
. concert given. by. q hand and that OF
4 Of the nurses sang for the wounds
y ..na- AffnrwaRA 1hnt Woro Glvon ~