Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-28

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Ess:ss ysS~ y: Iss!ss ccsssnZ. 3
ne was seventeen ysars cid snd Gsw
service 'on the Mexican border ISa 10
C6icially reported wounded In the Iatest
casualty list from tile War Department,
but his parents. whose home is at 1881
South Twenty second street, have mot
becyf notified Of his injury. He was for
merly employed by the Pennsylvania
Privste Edw.rd 4. Fcs. Company A.
10eth Machine-Gun Battalion. was
wounded August 81 According to q let
ter to his parents Mr., and Mrs. George
Fox. 20 North Conestoga street. he was
gassed. He is twenty:one years old and
was formerly a shipping clerk with the
Pennsylvania Railroad,
privste WiI''n~ > Devsvesux. Com
action on September &. Before enlist
ing he lived with his aunt. Mrs. X. Reed,
at 655 East Weatmorelan nj street In a
letter to his aunt Private Devereaux
said thet he was overcome by mustard
out.
Private AIcy.ius Dinreen enlisted in
the sixth Regiment, n. q. Pa. in June
OF 1917, was trained at Camp Hancock,
assigned to Company
Southern High Boy A. 18th Infantry.
-, and sent to France
~ Ounded in May OF this year
He il graduate OF
the Southern III El1 School and lived with
his parents at 1913 Fontaine street A
letter was received from the young sol
lier about two weeks ago, stating that
he had benn slightly wounded and had
also been gassed. rIe would be all right
in a few days. he added.
!, on Saturday there arrived an official
telegram from the War Department
stating that Private Dinneen had been
wounded hut that the degree was un-
determined. For a while his parents
feared that he had rejoined his regiment
and been hurt again. but comparison
OF the dates showed that the department
was referring to the old injury.
Private benjamin II. Hoffman, quar-
ter,naster corps was wounded on Au-
gust 30. He lived with his parents at
| sOOl E:astwick avenue and is Il years
old.
Corporal Joseph r. Formby, Company
A. 111th Infantry, was wounded In ac-
tion on September I. He lived with his
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Formby,
1850 Upland street He Is "a years old
and enlisted. in 1917
Corporal Thomss Hodge had been over
the top three times and escaped any in
fury. hut on the fourth try a machine
gun bullet dropped him FOR the count
as he said in letter to friends In this
lived at 62le Wheeler street His young
wife and baby live at Pleasantville. N. ].
Private Frank Sharkey died Of dis
ease on September IS. He had been
badly wounded in action and pneumonia
developed following major operation.
Private Sharkey belonged to the S34th
Mschine-Ciun Battalion. A letter. re-
eeysd by the dead scisier: lss s,st brother. %as,
Frederick Sharkey. OF isas East WSn.- WSa
keys funeral. given with full military
honors
Privnte Anthony J. Parson. wounded,
wrote the following picturesque descrip-
tion of battle he was in to his aunt.
Mrs. Nellie Schweitzer, 2117 North
Third street
THE frst time we were on the line
they gave us place the Germans had
been holding for six months. They had
machine guns placed on trees: Ger,
,own on the right of us. We were
down at the bo,tomAof the hill .s,,,,, and
tried to take that woods and the town
Ave times without any artillery to back
us UP. Well. our major said, Boys.