Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-07
SKETCHES OF THE HEROES

Private Isaac Novack. officially re-
ported as killed in action, was eighteen
years old and son of MIR. and Mrs. Will
liam Novacli, 500 South
Dead Soldier Thirteenth street. The
uD, parents received n tel
Writes Postcard egram from the War
| IN HE No,ber Department few
70 H's 1no'"er wee ks ago stating that
their son mad been
wounded in action on August 8, and al
though the young soldier wrote letters
home after that date he never referred
ceived last week which informed the par
ents that Private Novaclt had been
killed in action on October J, but inn
ceived from their son, dated October 10,
stating that he was in the best OF health.
In an effort to obtain definite informa-
ton, the father telegraphed to the War
Department at Washington and also to
General Pershing's headquarters, but so
far has received no answer. Novack was
member Of Company 70. 10th Infan-
try, and prior to enlistment was en-
ployed in his father's grocery store at
the South Thirteenth street address.
Private John Thomas Hagerty,, Com
| pany D, Twenty-flrst Machine-Gun Bat
talon, died on November II Of wounds
| notice from the War Department re-
| ceived today by his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs John Hagerty,- OF Jackson street.
Hagerty volunteered for, service in the
Macarthur, Waco, Tex, for training.
His unit. sailed for France in, August.
or how he was wounded. or where he was
| fighting. In his last letter. dated Oc-
tober 10, he merely said that he was
moving UP to the front. He was twenty
| boxer and at training camp represented
his unit in boxing tournaments; Be-
sides his parents, one brother and three
| sisters survive him.
Private Walter l.. shelter, of 10 North
Fifth street, died of shell shock in a
base hospital in France. November II.
official notification from the War De-
! partment today Private Shelter was
attached, to Company A, 146th Infantry,
and had been in France, for, several
| months after eight weeks training at
Private Charles G. Sterling. twenty
three years old, Company f 316th In
Sterling's parents are dead and the mes
sage was received at boarding house,
1924 South Twenty-third street, last
night, where he formerly lived. He was
drafted May 22 last and trained at Camp
Meade until July, when his division
sailed for France. Private Sterling con-
Quoted souvenir and novelty stand at
| Point Breeze Park before enlisting.
Sergeant Andrew shaEren, 2S62 Cedar
| street. was killed in action. during the
advance on Sedan, November 8, Just
three days before the, armistice was
SlButu. Tie was q IltlllDtT Oh company
X, 315th Infantry, and had been In
France since last July. A telegram from
washington notified his mother, Mrs.
Catherine Shagren, of her sons death
on Thanksgiving night. ut was exactly
q year to the day." says Mrs. Shagren,
from the time l saw him last to the
night the awful news of his death came"
The last letter he wrote, she says, was
dated October II and told of his ex-
perience in the Argonne sector in Sep
tember. He was single and made his
home at the Cedar street address before
going away to camp He was formerly
a, Government inspector in a munition
plant.
Private Harry Greenwood. Of Company
X, 315tE Infantry is officially reported
to have been killed in action on No
vember 5. Private Greenwood is one of
the many American soldiers to lose his
life in the last advance of the war.
Though 1t was expected that the armi-
stice would be signed anv minute our
boys pushed on to the last, capturing
Sedan. Private Greenwood was drafted
in September, 1917. and sailed for
France in July.
member of Company l.. 316th Infantry
He wrote his mother. Mrs. Mary Theresa
Delfino, gG21 East Somerset street, that
he was hurt on September %, and that
he had q machine-eun bullet through
the hand, but expected to be back at the
front soon. Private ,Delfno went 70
Camp Meade last July and was in
France four weeks Later. lie Is twenty