Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-05
TIME is UNCERTAIN
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gether with some casualS made up
of many widely scattered regiments.
There are a number of men from
the city in the 2Sth divisional or
CARNATIONS not connected with the
112th. Quite a few of these were
old Eighth Regiment, National
Guard men.
Company * has Harrisburg and
Central Pennsylvania guardsmen in
1t. York is well represented, and the
following from the city and vicinity
are still on the roster: First Sergeant
B. o. Mogel, whose parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. II. f. Mogel, 1913 South Cam
eron street, Harrisburg, visited him
to-day; Philip London, 1920 North
Sixth street; Roy c. Coble and Roy
Fortney, New Cumberland.
Former Governors Troop men and
others from the city had plenty to
do in the 103d Mobile Ordnance Re-
pair shop. Among them are Ser
geant Irwin P. Weaver, Sergeant
Paul A. Weaver, Gettysburg; Ser
geant Thomas L. Durborow. Ser
geant Harry d. Wilson, 1895 Kit
tatinny street; Corporal Edgar ID.
Lesher, 1906 Green Corporal Daniel
]. Crowley, Steelton; Sergeant Rich
ard +. Hamer, 100 North Second.
Repairing all kinds of guns from
small arms to 155-millmeter Co.
inch) French guns used by the 2Sth
Division kept the men busy, and at
one time they acted as repairmen
for a whole army corps composed
of the eth, seth and 91st stationed
near Metz at the time.
PcrshinG'S Inspection
They were talking about General
Pershing's inspection of the 2Sth
Division at Company / barracks to-
day and they told about little in
terview between the commander of
the A. E. +. and Ralph Garrett, of
the company. General Pershing in
spected every man of the regiment
and a number of times when he
saw boys with wound chevrons on
their sleeves would ask about them.
Garrett had no overcoat for the
inspection and loaned one belonging
to Err II. Peterson, Philadelphia.
who was wounded. A red stripe on
the sleeve indicated the fact and
when General Pershing passed Gar
rett he asked where he had been
wounded.
Il wasn't wounded sir" Garrett
replied.
But you are wearing a stripe"
General Pershing remarked.
The overcoat isn't mine, sir"
Garrett explained.
Private Charles Ryan, 1856 Ner-
non street wasn't around when they
told about him to-day. but his fear
lessness in running messages through
three terrific barrages of artillery
and machine gun fire during one OF
the battles showed to the fellows
that he was over there unafraid of
the Boche and his guns.
Sergeant Dutch" Bernheisel hap
pened to see his father, a sergeant in
the 111th Regiment, on July 4, last
year. just at the time the Huns were
sending over barrage. They called
it Fourth of July celebration at
the time, Dutch" says.
Every man in the Supply Com
pany of the 112th was exposed to
danger many times while the war
was on in France as nightly these
boys had to take food. ammunition
and other necessary supplies to the
men up front. No Harrisburgers in
the outfit were killed, but often
while bringing up supplies the work
was done with the men under heavy
bonn bardment.
Harrisburg Lads
Those from the city and vicinity
who are in the company and who
with the other members kept the
supplies moving to the men up front
are: Clyde Hopple, 1912 Wallace;
John Rakovsky. 527 Race; Paul
Knox. $40 Kelker; Roy r. Wiley,
i12S Vine; William Pechart, 1927
South Cameron; Charles b. Bowers,
North Front, Steelton; Charles Walt
man, 1880 Cowden; Lester Finney,
l132 Dock; NJ. II. Stephenson, New
Cumberland; George Frazer, Herbert
A. Shaffer and George +. Sponsler,
Camp Hill; Earl l. Wagner. 2007
Kensington; Raymond Michaels,
1909 North Third: Edward Strunge,
934 South Twenty Christ Hiner.
Camp Hill; Joseph Moody, 1907
North Cameron; Sergeant Samuel
Murlatt. 1907 jefferson, one of three
brothers in the 112th; Cook Paul r.
Miller, West Fairview; Harold
Snoddy; Paul ]. Kitzmiller, 1884
Lexington; Sergeant John Franklin.
81 South Sixteenth; Harry Neely,
Carlisle.
Frazer and Lance Wallace, of
Everts. showed their bravery when
they brought back Foster Hammer
er. who was wounded, taking him to
first-aid station while the Huns
were sending shells over, others in
the company say.
Hopple collected a lot of souvenirs
including some of the German pro-
paganda sent over the lines in air
planes and dropped. Rakovsky's
, stunt of grabbing blanket and
thinking it was a gas mask in his
excitement during shelling on one
occasion, has been mentioned while
the fellows were sitting around in
| the barracks.
Francis Knoble. 1921 North
Fourth. and Leroy Lands. 1S49 Re-
gina, are two Harrisburgers in Com
pany c., in which there are a num-