Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-05
SIX FROM HERE KILLED
ON FIELDS OF FRANCE

ON 1
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missing in action. The mothers in
formation came In letter from her
son.
In the casualty list released for pub
lication today in the morning news
papers, eighteen Pennsylvanians are
listed among the 191 names. The
afternoon newspaper list, containing
1873 names, includes those of seven-
teen men from this State.
The list Of wounded and missing fol-
lows:
WOUNDED
Lieutenant Edward Hugh Brown, 245
South Forty-sXth street.
Private Pete wvieder, 139 Wharton
street.
Private Joseph A. Davis. Washington
street.
Private william Rickard. 4s57 Aspen
street.
Private Fred $. Jainett.
PREVIOUSLY REPORTED MISSING
NOW IN ACTION
Private benjamin }. spang, IA Shir-
ley street (marines.)
FROM NEARBY POINTS
Private George Crumbach, Jr., of
Darby: gassed,
Private Harry a. Steeple, S26 Fifth
street, Camden; missing.
Private william T.. Stramm, a27 North
Thirty-first street. Camden; wounded
Sketches of Heroes
Lieutenant Gail Hamilton AIexan ander,
whose death was announced unofficially
before his wife received word from
the War Department, appears in the
first of today's casualty lists az killed
in action. Fighting with the Forty
seventh Infantry, he met death August
10. His wife lives at 2717 Spring Gar
den street and his mother in Danville,
Va
Corporal J. Palmer Fullerton, Jr.,
Company c, l09th Infantry. was killed
in action July 81. according to a re-
port received by his parents, J. Palmer
and Elizabeth Fairman Fullerton, 900
South Forty-seventh street. Corporal
Fullerton. who was twenty-four' years
old, enlisted ten days after war was de-
clared in the old First Regiment. For
a time his company guarded the Gray's
y
Both his grandfathers were soldiers.
serving in the Civil War. One of them,
George w. Fairman, One-time post
master of this city. served with the Key
stone Battery. and the other, j. Palmer
Fullerton. served with the Fifteenth
Penrsylvania Cavalry, better known as
Anderson's Cavalry"
In a, letter dated July 81, "almer
wrote to his parents
This is the first letter I have been
able to write recently, as we have been
in hell for five days. We were ordered
into the trenches the early part of the
week and were in for five days under
one of the heaviest artillery lombard
ments Of the war. 1t is miracle we
came out alive.
"All the boys from around home are
safe. of course we had some casualties.
but everybody agrees that the outfit has
made a name for itself We are now
resting for a couple of days behind the
lines
The boys are not anxious to repeat
their experience, but, of course, Will will
hgly go into the fight again.
II have had several narrow escapes.
Cnce while lying along a road u shell
exploded directly in front Of me SO close
that l was burned by the powder. Yet
all it did was to knock the wind out Of
me and blow my tin hat heavenward.
Another time l had to leave the trench
for work assigned to me and got a hot
reception The boche is a poor marks
man, and | have reached the conclusion
that | like bullets better than shrapnel
This might seem funny, but experience
has taught me this, l am in good health
and have a fine appetite"
Private william Carly was killed sir,
action on July 90 while fighting WIN
Company NJ, Twenty-eighth Infantry.
according to word received today from
the War Department. He was twenty
three years old and the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Carty, 20S Cedar lane.
Highland Park, Upper Darby. Memorial
services will be held for him at s
o'clock on Sunday evening in the
Protestant Episcopal church, Highland
Park.
Private Edward Il. Pascoe, whose
home in this city was at SiXty-first and
Thompson streets, lost his life while
fighting with the Canadian army in
France. Pascoe was born in PhiladeI-
phia, but enlisted in San Francisco,
Cal, being sent first to England and
then to France. He sailed for England
from Halifax the day before the eXplo-
sion in the harbor wrecked that city.
IN letter ne "lolt recently 10 MS
brother, Charles j. Pascoe who lives
here. the soldier said
IF Heine Is sensible he will keep right
on going, for we are coming like an ava
lanche from HI. l feel as though l had
drunk some wonderful nectar brewed
| by the God of War My opportunity
has come. and oh how happy ] am to
participate in it,
| Private Jesse Vandegrift, who died
as the result of an accident in France,
| enlisted in october of last year and was
detailed with Battalion B, 313th Field
Artillery. His widowed mother lives at
| 2217 Haworth street, Frankford. He has
three brothers and two sisters. Van
| degrift was thrty-one years old.
| Two weeks ago Mrs. Vandegrift re-
| ceived a telegram announcing the death
| of her son. Yesterday she received A
| letter of confirmation from the War De-
partment in which she was told that he
had been buried with proper services in
! France and that after the war his body
would be sent home. She was told that
full particulars of how her son met his
death would be forwarded to her later
| and instructed how to secure the per
| sonal effects of her son and his insur'
| ance money. The communication
form letter-was signed by the adjutant
| general.
Private Louis Gordan, Killed in actor
August s, lived in this city at 400 VOL
street. He escaped death once before