Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-27

brother Is stationed at Jersey City, at
tached to a hospital train.
Corporal Benedict Conroy had his left
}sg badly shattered on the morning: of
november IL, only, n few hours before
the armlstice was signed. The WASH
ington message telling his father, Dan
iel Convoy, 42QS North Fifteenth street,
that Corporal Conroy had been wounded
arrived on December 13. few days
later a letter from the young soldier
wrltten November "a, arrived with the
fnformuton that he was fast recovering
and hoped soon to be returned to the
UnitedN States.
CORPORAL yConroy was inducted into the
gervicesJ in November. 1917, and sent TO
*,ompasiy E, 3l5th Infantry. He sailed
Tor Frhnce in July. brother, Private
JosephA. .Conroy, was also in the service
tary gQlice. He saw service in France,
but wins returned to the United states
wbIeS w brIeSS9tsr rron1 from an attack Of pneumonia
received his discharge from the army
q few days ago.
Priyete AdoIph Greib, killed in action,
snnsted< In Company A, 10th Infantry.
teen 9shrs old: His regiment was train
4 60 at Camp Hancock, and sent overseas
IN May of this year.
The Washington telegram which ar
rived specember 1S, stating that Private
~, Is the only word of the young mans
fate that has come to his father, Philip
.Sreib, 9bl North Fifth street. The, last
letter Private Greib wrote was dated
early IN September, at which time he
expected to be granted a furlough to re-
turn home for visit, Apparently he
was killed only a few days before leav-
ing on his return trip 70 this country.
Private Lloyd Il. Clay. Company L,
Sixtieth Infantry, was severely wounded
on thenext to the last day of the war.
He says in q letter to an aunt, Mrs.
Willis I1. smith. 1927 North SlXty-second
street that he was struck in the left leg
by O. piece of shrapnel while hauling am
munitipn to the front during the advance
on Sedan. He Is rapidly improving in a
base hospital and expects to be sent
home soon, he added.
PriHlte Clay enlisted August Is, 1917
and after few weeks at Gettysburg was
sent I'd Camp Greenleaf for intensive
trainiIig. leaving there for overseas last
April, lie is twenty-one, years old, sin
gle, ana, before joining the army was
employed at an ammunition plant. He
madefhs home with his aunt at the Six
ty-sehoHd street address.
Private John Grundy, Company *,
Ninthtfnfantry. was wounded on No
vember 4. He Is twenty-one years old
and was drafted in May; Before he
was drafted he was q chauffeur and
lived with his father, William j. Grundy,
at ZIG West Tioga street.
Private Theodore II. Fisher. Company
b, 314th Infantry, was wounded on Oc;;
and waE drafted in January. Before he
was drafted he worked in glass fac
tory He lived with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Gharles Fisher. at 1927 North
Sergeant Joseph Haines. headquarters
company. 315th Infantry, was killed on
OctobeE 81. He was twenty-five years
old and before being drafted he worked
in the roundhouse of the Phila delphla
and Reading Railway. He lived with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Haines
at 3426 North Third street.
Sergeant Charles Mncken, thirty-two
years old. for ten years a member of the
regular army and hero of three wars,
~ died Of wounds re-
Veterdn Sergeant, ceived in action in
fHero Of Three on q "ofp,ce December be d" IL. I.
Vars, Dies OF He vas vas bur buried ed
Wounds honors. News OF
IA his death came
from the War Department to brother
Joseph Macken, of 5627 Nelson street,
Germantown, n few days ago. sergeant
Macken had gunshot wounds in the head
side and shoulder.
Macken served three years. in the
Philippine Islands. two years in CHINA
and later on the Mexican border When
this country declared war on Germany
he promptly re-enlisted, was sent to
Camp Greene and assigned to Company
@, Forty-seventh Infantry. rms unit
was among the first to embark for over.
seas Sergeant Macken was born in this
city, attended the Germantown public
schools and the Central High School
During his service in China and the
Philippines he learned to speak: Spanish
fiuentiy and to make himself understood
in Chinese. While at Camp Green he
4 was for. a time drill sergeant and be-
A 5came 50 efficient that he was offered a
post in Alaska, but refused in order to
get into actfve.fighting. While in Phila-
delphia he made his home with his
4 Brother in Germantown.
| Private, Leonard Miller, Company II,
| 109th infantry enlisted in November.
1917. He received his training at Camp
Hancock, iAugusta, Ga. On September
6 he was Wounded in action He wrote
North EleSenth street, that he was rap