Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-03
Sketches of the Heroes
EDWARD q. ROYCE

LIEUTENANT EDWARD q. ROYCE
died of pneumonia on September 3
q .-while serving in France. was the son Of
Dr. and Mrs charles e. Royce. Of 521l
( ~ walnut street. Lieutenant Royce
earned his commission in an officers
svltraining camp in the summer Of last
year and attached to Company f.
313th Infantry National Army. Lieu
tenant Royce was thirty-two years old
and was well known here.
SERGEANT MICHAEL LEONARD.
tsxiJR., killed in action, was formerly em-
pioyed in the circulation department of
s's' the Curtis Publishing Company. He had
been a member of the National Guard
80 >sof Pennsylvania for nine years when
a.. this country entered the war, and tried
$50 Tor a commission at the officers train
-. ing camp. Fort Niagara lie completed
the course there but fSled to secure Al
.~sS. l'eute nancy by very narrow margin.
He promptly went back to the guard
~, and soon rose to be n sergeant in Conn
pary NJ, Of the l1lth Infantry His
mother Mrs. Mary Leonard, was in
formed by the War Department that
son had been killed on August l2
Punger brother. Thomas Leonard
Ethe navy and at present is help
b guard Cramps shipyards
uvATE FRANK T. BARNES. killed
ctiou, the only son Of Mr.. and
T +. Barnes. 3ls South Sixth
It, Darby He was only seventeen
he enlisted In July Of 1917, in
)nse to the Presidents call for
lteers Asked by his parents whether
ealized the risk he taking. he
ed, Yes. | understand hut | feel
must go, a fellow can only die
yce and there is no better way 10 die
ian while fighting for ones country
The young soldier. who was mems
Der of Company II. Ith Infantry, was
cut down by machnegun fire during
the fighting around Fismes. August II,
according TO letter received by his
,rey Father from the Rev Charles Conaty,
chaplain of the Second Battalion, tO
- which the 18th was attached. Private
Barnes was a graduate of the Darby
High School. and was a fine all-round
athlete. He engaged in the auto
mobile business when he responded TO
the call to the colors.
lsss PRIVATE ALBERT A. WATSON
killed in action was the seventeen year
4 II, old son Of John : Watson, 81 South
Second street. Cowyn He was a grad
-.- tuate of st. Clements Catholic school
and enlisted in July of last year. he
was trained at Camp Hancock. where ht
was assigned to Company II, lllth In,
fantry. and was killed in the same battl,
and at the same time Private Barnes
10 "A brother Andrew Watson, is in tn,
marine corps.
81. CORPORAL ISRAEL GOLDsTEI>
had previously been reported missing
~
officially announced his death III,
sss<parents, however believe that "A mistak
has been made for the official motto,
Sc stated that he was killed on July ;
whereas several letters have been re
ceived from him since that time, the las
one. dated September Z, telling hi
Y = parents that he was in base hospital
recovering from wounds Private Gold
y stein is nineteen years old, and enliste
April 16. 1917, in the National Guard o
90 Pennsylvania. His parents, Mr.. an
Mrs. Harry Goldstein live at 23l9 Sout
Beulah street.
CORPORAL THEODORE y SMYTHT
wounded is a member Of Company II
10sth Infantry He was formerly en-
ployed as a craftsman at the Baldwi
Locomotive Works. He enlisted In tn
1ss old First Regiment, ~ q. f., at the tim
~ of the Mexican border troubles an
"a served through that campaign. In
: recent letter to his mother, Mrs Stell
@'nD Smythe. 1872 North Forty-tirst stree
he said that he had been wounded in IN
shoulder with shrapnel and that his ear
had been injured by the conclusion Of
high explosive shell 4 brother Fred
.,erick Smythe. is also in France he beln
s ~ y Attached to the Fifty-fourth Pioneers.
FNs CORPORAL NEIL McELwEE. Nlle
In action, was twenty-eight Neai
~ Sold and lived with an aunt, Mr.
Hannah Harrity. caretaker of the hou
- at 1908 Spruce street He enlisted
September. 1917. in the old Third Reg
ment ~ q. r. and was sent to Can
Hancock for training There he va
assigned TO Company |, ll0th lnfantl
and went overseas in May last. I
formerly lived with his parents at Twei
~ ty-second and Pemberton streets, an
~ II was educated at the ST. Charles Bo
romeo Parochial School. In his la
49, letter. written only few days befCl
his death ne said that the whole cart
wss shaking and quivering as resu
4 Of the heavy and continuous fire of II
80 German and Allied artillery.
PRIVATE CHARLES ROBERT MOS
A0HAN, killed in action was the so
Of John Mona CHAN, $500 Chester avenu
He was eighteen years old Young MOI
( ~ Afghan enlisted just prior to the Mexics
(. y &c campaiGn In 1915. served at the borde
4 q recelved further training AZ Camp Hal
cock and went TO France hast spring
'- = member of Company J. iiith Infantr
Ihe last ietfer from him was dated Ju