Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-07

ice cream. the first ! had since I left
the United States"
Freeman has no children. He had
been member of the National Guard
seven years when the war came. f1e
served on the Mexican border, and while
there his enlistment expired in July,
1916. He came back to Philadelphia
with his regiment in September. and
when the National Guard was mobilized
for the present war he was not called
Immediately because he was married. 1t
being the policy to leave married men
behind. So he re-enlsted in June and
was sent on active service July 16.
Private walter Connison, reported
wounded by shrapnel while in the 'front.'
line trenches operating a machine gun.
was member of Company X, Third
Regiment. n. G. p, for six years before
he secured a transfer to the military .po-
lice and was sent abroad. Over there
he secured a second transfer, this time
to Battery B. 109th machine-gun bat
terry with which he was serving when
wounded His mother lives in this city
at o405 Stewart street. His father, who
has been an invalid for ten years. Is in
Ireland.
Word of his injury was received yes
terday by his mother. Two letters ar
rived here from the machine gunner,
other five days later In the first letter
Connison told of being wounded In the
neck on August Z. He was in base
hospital behind the lines and said the
wound was not serious
Connison, before the war, was en-
Moved as a shell polisher at Baldwin's s
Locomotive Works. He served on the
Mexican border with the National Guard
and later was on guard duty near Pitts
burgh.
He was a well-known athlete Of this
ci,v gaining distinction as a marathon
runner of the Northwest Boys Club.
| private Walter J. Brown, the son of
wil,iam p. Brown, of Lansdale, has been
missing since July "a, according to word
received by his father yesterday. The
dispatch arrived on the boys twenty
sixth birthday Young Brown entered
the service last February and trained
at Camn Meade He was in Company
| A ,O2d Infantry. HeAwas born in this
| civ hut when about year old moved
| IN Jansdale, where he conducted a
| tobacco shop and pooroom.
| private John +. Tobin, officially re-
| rted missing in action in July, Is back
with his company. according to letter
from him dated August ., received by
has parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Tobin
Sr, 1855 North Thirty-eighth street
Private Tobin stated that he mad peer
| in action for eighteen consecutive days
hut that he escaped without scratch
| Sergeant John Joseph Shanalian, 22t
North Hicks street, is missing, according
N word received yesterday from the
War department. He Is assigned tc
Company A. 1O9th Infantry. Shanahar
| enlisted with the old First Regiment
| several years ago and served on the
| MEXICAN border. He Is twenty-fou,
| years old.
Private Hyman Kaufman is reported
| wounded BEFORE he was drafted ir
| September of last year he lived with his
| parents at 619 North Second street. He
| Is attached to Company l.. Fourth In
| fantry, and took part in the memorable
drive of the Americans at Chateau
| Thierry The last letter to his parents
received from him was August II ant
| in it he said he had been assigned tc
guard duty in the first-line trenches.
| Lieutenant John J. Lupu. reported
missing recently. was wounded and now
| Is in a hospital. recovering, accordins
to a letter received by his family. a
| 456 North Sixth street This Is the sec
ond time Lieutenant Lupu has beer
wounded. Once previously he received
a piece of shrapnel In the right arm
His present wounds consist of a sho
through the throat and another through
the right lung. He enlisted in the reg
ular army. being assigned to Compan,
F.. Fifty-eighth Infantry. He won hi
lieutenancy on July l, after he was II
France.
/ Private Clarence McCool, wounded
! boarded at 1910 South Fiftieth street
and his sister, Mrs. Mary Martin, live
; on Chester avenue near Fifty-sixtl
street. A sister-in-law, Mrs william
McCool lives at 1926 South Fiftietl
street. Her husband is In France, an,
Mrs. McCool said it has been more thar
two months since she had heard from
I, him. ..-
There are three other McCool brother
in the service--Robert, Leonard an
Jack. Jack has been missing since tn
great mid-July drive. Robert enlisted Il
1916 and served on the Mexican border
Clarence. who is twenty-seven years oil
: and the Oldest of the McCool heroes, en-
listed in June. 1917. and went to Franc
early in May. He was brakeman o
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
Private Harry O'Hara died in a hos
pital In France on August IL fror
shrapnel wounds. according to a lette
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