Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-16
LIEUTENANT BULLITT is AMONG
u. s. HEROES KILLED IN ACTION

can border. lie was called to the COL
ors when the First Regiment was mobil-
ICED after the United States entered the
war. and trained at Camp Hancock.
Later he was assigned to Company NJ,
Iu0th Infantry, and was sent to France
last May.
The last letter received from him was
dated July IL and stated that he was
then in the trenches with the shells
flying thick and fast" Two friends
were wounded while standing beside
him. he said. They were Benjamin
Freeman, Gs26 Chew street, whose right
leg was shattered, aud Walter Gable,
531 Montgomery avenue, who was
gassed and wounded in the side. Both
those boys will recover. Cory had es-
capped injury SO far, he added.
Born in Germantown and educated in
the public schools there and in Mount
Airy. Cory left school when he was
seventeen and became fireman on the
Reading Railway. lie was member of
the Patriotic Order Sons of America
and of the Sons of Veterans. his great
grandfather Robert G. Cory, having
served in the War of 1912. and his
grandfather, G. w Cory. having fought
in the Ciril War as member of
the l1Gtl Pennsylvania Volunteers. His
father was formerly member OF the
old Third Regiment, Pennsylvania Ma
tional Guard.
Sergeant James ". Lau. killed in ac-
tion July %, was an employe of the
Wrman's Iosn'tal. Twenty-secOnd street
and North college avenue, where he
lived. Mrs. {. +. Spangcnberg. 25O2
West Somerset street. was a sister.
Lau was forty-five years old and
was a member Of the Fifth Regiment.
National Guard of Pennsylvania. for
several years prior to this country's
difficulty with Mexico He went to the
border as ~ corporal. When the border
patlo! Vas lifted Lau returned TO this
..' .''r'n"d employment at the
hospital. When war was declared on Ger
It. t..Ju.nvl tnc Fifth Regiment
.'.l ..n@ '.rdr - sergeant ut Mount
Gretna The regiment became the
Ii2tn after IT. was mustered into Federal
service. l.8u had been in France, nearly
n year He was born in Carlisle, Pa,
and Was Il son of Lewis Lau.
Private James VI. Greeley, Jr.. re-
ported missing Is a brother of Private
Raymond Greeley, who yester lay was
reported as having been wounded in
action. Pe was the son of Mr.. and Mrs
James n. Greeley and was member
Of Company NJ, 10th Infantry He was
missing after battle on July Is, accord
ing to a message received by his parents
from the War Department. He was
twenty-three years old and enlisted III
September. last year, at the same time
his brother went into the service
Sergeant Nice sustained wound to
his eve and was sent to hospital,
where he contracted trench fever ac-
eording to a letter received from him by
the Abingdon Police Department. He Is
of 10 nd
road, Arlington, and was known as a
daring motor driver in this section. He
enlisted as a machine gunner, but was
| transferred to an ambulance unit after
his arrival in France because of his
| knowledge of motors.
| Private CarIin is the son Of Mrs
Eugene Carlin. Mather avenue, Jenkin-
town He was gassed in July and was
| in French hospital for some time.
Private Whalen resided in Hillside
avenue, Jenkintown. with his parents
He was an enlisted man with the
engineers corps and was gassed at the
same time as Carlin. He also spen,
some time in a French hospital
Private Gastrock was twenty-five
gears old, and member of Company
NJ, 109th Infantry. lie lived with his
| mother. Mrs. Emma Gastrock 2019
| Sepviva street He was one of the
local militiamen to answer the Presi'
dents first call for volunteers for the
Mexican border in 1915. A brother
Frederick w. Gastrock., Jr., was drafted
and honorably discharged for physical
disability.
Private jenkins, Company NJ, 109tf
Infantry. Reported missing in actor
on July 10. 1918. He was twenty-five,
years old, and enlisted on August s
1917. in the Second Regiment n, G. p