Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-10
SKETCHES OF HEROES

Captain Joseph Walker, son-in-law OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas De Witt Cuyler.
reported in todays casualty list as
wounded severely, Is recovering in n
base hospital in Paris. He received two
serious wounds near Chateau-Thierry on
July Is. the day the Germans started
their last offensive.
Nurses and physicians Of a Phlade,-
phia unt--No. "a. formed at the Episco-
pal Hospital a year ago-are bringing
the young officer back to health, al
though in his last letter to his wife. Mrs
Eleanor Cuyler Walker. he said it would
be six months after he was discharged
from the hospital before he would be
able to return to the firing line
Captain Walker was shot down while
on a desperate mission. He was irving
to re-establish communications with his
regiment, the Seventy-sixth Field Artil-
lery, after the telephone wires between
his observation post and headquarters
had been shot away
There was only one way to apprise
his commander of art impending at
tack, and that was to go back through
the barrage. Captain Walker started to
the rear. creeping along the ground.
taking advantage of every hummock or
torn bush.
The distance was cut down to $50 yards
to l25 yards, to 100 yards. At that mo-
ment a shrapnel shell burst almost be-
side him. Fragments inflicted two
serious wounds. He fell forward on his
face, but with a remembrance of the
Importance of his information, doggedly
dragged himself forward again. Some
how he covered that last long stretch,
and the guns of the Seventy-sixth We're
turned upon the ground where he had
seen the Huns gathering
His message delivered. Captain Wal
ker collapsed in a dugout. The Seventy
first was too busy repulsng the Hun
attack to attend to his individual case,
so he lay nine hours without attention.
Finally the stretcher bearers found him
and conveyed him to the rear.
Captain Walker is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Walker, of Garrison-in-
Hudson. He has a brother Lieutenant
Samuel Sloan Walker, in the aviation
section of the navy.
First Lieutenant Malvin j. Nabb, for
| two years student-athlete at Swarth-
mere College before he entered the serv-
| ice, has been killed in action in France
while with his men in a captured village.
He is twenty-three years old and the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Nabb, of
Millville, y. j.
Word of his death was given to his
parents today after resident or Mill
vile received a letter from the captain
of Lieutenant Nabb's company. Or
August . Lieutenant Nabb Is reported tc
have led his men into a village the regi.
ment had just captured. While the
| lieutenant was in a building in the
village a German shell wrecked it. The
officer was instantly killed.
Lieutenant Nabb went to the first of
| fcers' training camp from college ano
| received a commission as second lieu
! tenant. He was transferred to the reg
ular army, and upon arriving in Franco
| was commissioned first lieutenant
| Among the first to go overseas, Lieuten
ant Nabb was in the fight from the be
| ginning. At one time he had been or
dered back of the lines to an officers
! camp, where he was to train for
| higher commission. on his way to th
rear he learned that his company hat
been ordered to go into action and III
Immediately returned to the trenche
and led his men into battle.
| Private George Coscki, nineteen year
old, reported to have been killed !
France on July 16, was born in ltai
and came to this country when he wa
nine years old He lived with his par
ents at 5532 Sprague street, German