Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-05

was soon promoted to he u corporal and
shortly afterward made sergeant. His
unit went to France in April Of this
year.
PRIVATE JAMES ELwOOD THOMp-
son. wounded, has been In base hospi-
tai since the capture Of Chateau-Thierry
by the American forces in July. His
condition was serious, but he is reported
to be improving now and to have. been
sent to a convalcscent camp. His
parents live at 2037 Rittcnhouse street,
PRIVATE STEPHEN GIRARD
FAUST. wounded, was first reported
missing. but a letter from "A cornrade,
Private Edward Baker, of Fifty-second
street and Iaverfurd avenue. states that
Faust is in a base hospital recovering
from a severe wound, The young SOL
dier is a member of the 10th Infantry,
having enlisted in tho Old Third Regi
ment, n. q. F., in June of 1916. and
having served through the Mexican bor-
der campaign and done guard duty i'm
the western part Of the State. In his
last letter he speaks of the cffective
fashion in which the Americans stopped
the German drive at the Marne, and
adds that he came through that terrific
struggle without scratch.
SERGEANT Sol. FRANKEL official
ly reported missing, was n member of
Sew YORK regiment, though his home
was in this city. lie had been woEling
in New York for some years and when
the draft law went into. effect he regis
tered there and was one of the first to
be inducted into the army. He was
trained at Camp Upton and went over
seas In March of this year.
The telegram from the War Depart-
ment stating that he had been missing
since the latter part of August reached
the home of his father, Adolph Frankel,
southeast corner Of Seventh and Wolf
streets, a week ago but was kent from
the father by his nlnetecn-year-oid
daughter Jennie. The elder Frankel has
not been well for some time and she
feared the effect OF the news on him.
Each day he has scanned the official
casualty lists in the newspapers and has
sighed with relief when he failed TO find
his sons name on them. This morning
his daughter broke the nows.to him and
he was Frustrated with grief The fact
that his boy was missing not dead, how
ever. was pointed out to him and he was
encouraged with the thought that the
young soldier was probably n prisoner in
Germany, and would come back 10 him
after the war is over.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM p. GUILFOYIE
officially reported today to have died of
disease; was unoiticially reported on
September 20 as having died as a result
OF gas poisoning, His parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Guilfoyle, 410S baltimore
avenue, are puzzled and have written
10 irlehdS IN france to try and learn
Captain Guilfoyle was formerly an in
structor i'm surgery at the University OF
PennsyNanla, and was attached to the
Prior to the war he was a Lieutenant in
the medical corps Of the old Sixth Regi-
ment and was transferred to the l1ith
q along with all the rest of the rank and
! file OF the old Sixth at Camp Hancocll
last fall.
The family believe that he was gassed
sometime during the July offensive as
the last letter they received from him
was written on July Is. the day the Ger
man drive across the Marne started
Captain Guilfoyle was medical grad :
uate OF the University Of PennsylVania
| IN lDOb lie was unmarried and prac-
ticed medicine in West Philadeiphia for
a number of years He was a member
Of the Alpha Kappa Kappa and Accia
fraternities, of the Overlook Golf Club
| Mason.