Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-30
KILLED AT HEAD
| OF HIS COMPANY
'Too Brave, Is Tribute of
Comrades of Sergeant
Aaron Price
IL PHILADELPHIA DEAD
Eleven Fall in Action. Three
Succumb to Wounds and
! Others to Disease

Succumb to Wounds and
j Others to Disease
~ --
"All the boys say he was too brave
and took too many chances"
This is the story of the death in ac-
tion of Sergeant Aaron Price, 2436
North Twentieth street. as told in let
ter from Battalion Sergeant Major Leon
Cohen. a PhiladeIphian. with the '3O7th
Engineers,
Sergean: Mai jor Cohen, back from the
front for a rest. heard that Prices unit
also was in rest station nearby. He
went over for a chat with his old friend,
only to learn that he had been killed in
action.
Fell at Head OF Company
He was a mighty fine soldier, well
liked, and had a chance to go to train
Ing camp or go back to the States as an
Instructor. but he wanted to stay with
his company.
He was leading his company. after
officers were put out of commission. and
was hit by machine-gun bullet
Cohen's letter to his brother Harry
Cohen, 5908 North Hutchinson street.
was written November ..
Lieutenant Walter NJ Godshall, of
Philadelphia, was killed in action fight
Ing bravely, according to word received
from brother officers by his mother, Mrs.
Amanda Godshall. of Hichlandtown for
merly of $685. North Twelfth street.
Lieutenant Godshal fell October 10
while fighting with his command. Com
pany B, 320th Machine Gun Battalion.
Lieutenant Godshall and his brother,
Elmer, went to Camp Meade, September
23, 1917 and on October Is he quail
fed for the officers training school at
Camp Gordon. He sailed for France
with the 325th Infantry in April, and
after arriving there received his commits
sion. In the meantime his brother was
returned to the United States and as
signed to Camp Lewis, American Lake,
Wash, as an instructor, with the rank
of sergeant.
Seventeen Philadelphians are among
the dead in today's casualties, eleven
killed in action, three dead of wounds
and three dead of disease.
SKETCHES OF THE HEROES
Private william J. Schott, gassed in
the latter part of October, had been
through four big battles without
scratch On ope
,u w occasion he made
Dodged az HifeS his way for two
Through Shell Fire miles through a
to Get His Letters in order TO get his
mail from home,
but escaped un-
soAthed. OF the 10 men in his COM
pany when they first went to the front
he said in a letter to friend in this
city. only four were able to answer roll
, call for the last attack in which he
participated. All the others were either
killed. wounded. gassed or missing.
Private Schott enlisted on July 8. 1917
joining the old Third Regiment. y. G.
F. He was sent to Camp Hancock for
training and was eventually assigned to
Company +. 10th Infantry His uni,
has been in France since July of this
year and has taken part in all the heavy
fighting along the Marne, the Fisle and
the Meuse. Finally Company F was so
badly cut up that he and few others
were transferred to Company T.. of the
109th Infantry. and Company +. of the
j 10th. was reorganized with men from
replacement camp. Private Schott
made his home at 7l20 Rising Sun
. avenue
Private Attilio Iadevaia. wounded. en-
listed in the regular army year before
this country declared war on Germany.
He was a tailor and owned his shop,
but felt that IL was his duty to help
night the Germans. He was assigned to
the Fifty-eighth Infantry and has been
IN France for sixteen months. taking
part iE all the battles along the Marne
and around Verdun. He Is about twenty
four years old and made his home with
q cousin, Humbert Ciacci, at 1910 South
Thirteenth street.
Private Joseph ID. McCabe, who died
OF pneumonia In France following an at
TACK OF influenza was a member of Bat
terry c, 321st Field Artillery He was
drafted last April and sent to France
us IN May to ~ the ranks Of the artillery
on the Evening Star. an afternoon news
paper of this city which went out Of ex
istence year or so ago. McCabe was
twenty-seven years old and lived with
his parents. MIR. and Mrs. John P. Nc
Cabe, at 300 Mantua avenue In his
about his younger brother. James Nc
The older brother had not been able to
locate James in France and wanted his
father to urge the younger to be careful
action. The elder McCabe had beer
married about eight years, his wife Mrs
Grace McCabe, living at 1914 Master
street.
Z. wood avenue, gassed and wounded, wen,
to the second officers training camp
held at Fort Oglethorpe. Ca, in August
1917 After receiving his commission ir
the artillery in November, 1917, he was
assigned to Camp Gordon for instruction
duty, particularly among the Italians
and Russians. He went overseas or
March Is of this year and since ther
has seen much active service with Bat.
terry B, 321st Field Artillery.
He was gassed and wounded in the les
some time between the 15th and the 21si
of October, and is now somewhere II
midocean en- route home.
Lieutenant Miller Is a graduate o.
Harvard, class of 1914, where he wor
many honors. He was connected with
the Victor Talking Machine Compan,
when he enlisted. He has two brother,
and cousin in the service. Lieutenan
Elwood Miller is in ordnance. stationed
at Washington; j. Erwin Miller is will
the quartermaster corps and the cousiI
is in the marines.
Private Charles l.. Knox, officially re-
ported missing following the fighting
along the Meuse on September rs, had
rejoined his com
RocL Witb IJnit pany six weeks be-
fore the notification
Six Weeks Before that he had dIsap
Listed Missing mother. Who live, ns,
at 2114 South Opa
street letter from Private Knox ar.
rived three weeks after the official tele.
gram informing his mother that he was
safe and sound. II got lost during the
thick of the fighting" he said, 'and II