Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-06
WOUNDED IN ACTION
Lieutenant William H. Nc.
Cutcheon, Jr., of Wayne, on Gen.
eral Pershing's hero roll

hy the whole company and the boys miss
him very much I myself am lost with
out him. as we had always been to-
gether since we left home.
"I would have written you sooner.
but we have just come out of the
| trenches and this Is the first chance
got to write you. ! have been sent to
division headquarters to do topographic
drafting and I'm there now. We have
hean 10 the front nine times ntw and
are in hopes of getting division relief
right soon."
| Sergeant Harry ID. Edgar was killed
| in France on August 10, according to
! word received from the War Depart
| ment. He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs,
| samuel II. Edgar. 1928 West oxford
street.
| He was thirty-siX years old and a
member of Company B. 10Sth Field Ar
tillery. which was formerly the Second
| pennsylvania Regiment. News of his
death reached MIR. and Mrs. Edgar in a
letter from Albert Ferguson, of this
CITY. lifelong friends of Sergeant Edgar.
The letter stated Edgar had been in
iured in an accident and had died in a
hospital five days later. His death has
not been confirmed by the War Depart
ment. Sergeant Edgar was an inspec-
tor in the bureau of highways. His
father is a tlpstaff in the Municipal
| Court.
Lieutenant Joseph r. Winoltur. wound
cd in action on August 8. is the son of
Max winotur, 1741 North Thirty-second
| street. The fact that he was wounded
was reported unoffically on August 81
after his father had received word from
the War Department concerning his son
Private Louis Chicone, reported re.
Gently as missing has been killed. ac-
cording to word that has reached his
friends here. Chicone was known here
as a boxer, having participated in many
preliminaries throughout the city. He
is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Anthony Chit
cone and was twenty-four. He was
known in sports circles as Thomas
Sheridan He enlisted as soon as wal
was declared, in Company l.. 10th In
fantry, formerly the Third Pennsylvania
Infantry A brother. Jesse ChicoNe, Is
in the army, and another brother. Henry
was killed while serving with the ole
First on the Mexican border. The
family lives at 1907 Christian street.
uPriyate Alexander Myers, a member o
the company led by Lieutenants Fale'
and Coward, is also reported killed II
action by Sergeant McFadden. Myer
was a pugilst of this city. who Tough
under the name OF Chick" Myers.
CORPORAL Lamar Christ, Company X
Eleventh Infantry, was gassed while II
the front line trenches previous tt
August IA, according to letter received
from him under that date by his sister
Miss Catherine Christ, 1918 North Alder
street.
Christ is twenty-one years old, ant
before he enlisted in June of last year
was employed as an electrician. HI
parents live in MahanCy City, Pa.
Il am in the hospital" he wrote. "bu
will not be here very long, as all that
did was to inhale a little gas. 1t made
me feel very weak and tires me out
I walk for five or ten minutes. M.
ears are on the bum and my left eye
but | will soon be back in the fray.
Three days later he wrote: ..
well, everything so far is good. an
feeling o. X. and intend to be back
II soon again. ! must say this Is
mighty nice hospital and / like 1t yer!
much for while, but would ike TO d.
with the fellows again."
From a previous letter received iron
the infantryman, it is believed that h