Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-12
MEN or OLD Sd HOME,
ARE RUSHED TO DIX
Arrive on Edgar F. luckenbach.
Will Be Able to Visit Homes
Here Wednesday
REPLACEMENTS ARE MANY

Philadclphians In the 10th Infantry
the heroic old Third Regimcnt-who
arrived here on the transport Edgar F.
I.uckenback yesterday will be able to
visit their homes Wednesday.
II passed in the Delaware Brcakwater
this morning at 8 O'Clock and is due
10 reach Snyder avenue wharf between
2 and 4 o'clock. The vessel has on
hoard units of the 10th Infantry tor
,nerly the old Third Regiment. and Of
Z fcers Of the 1OSth Machine Gun Bat-
stallion. ,,
The work Of rushing the men through
<hp sanitary process at camp biN'
,rhore they were taken last night. began
oarlv this morning. so that the cleans
,rr oneratiop will be finished by We'd
j nesdov. when the men come to Phlla-
dclnh;a 20 take part in the Iron d.
vision celebration Thursday.
Colone, Joseph II. Thompson, regi
mental commander, will lead the mon
In the parade. ,,oo
On hoard the Luckenbach were 2360
officers and men, comprising the held
and staff. First and Second Bat
tol;ou ,adauartcrs, medical detach-
rent. Headquarters, supply and ma
cb;ne pun companiesNand Companies A..
n G. d and r. Three officers and
3e7 men comprising companies Nj and
IA the balance of the Tooth Infantry.
the rest having landed last week, also
were on board.
But the regiment that was once rem
sylvania's, with Philadelphians pre-
dominating, is now the whole country's.
The 10th suffered the greatest casual
ties of the Twenty eighth Division, and
more casualties than any other rcgi-
ment in the United States army, with
the exception of four regular army regi
ments in the First Division.
Many Men From Other States
requirements were made without re-
gard for the section of the country from
which the men hailed and as result
many who returned with the 10th (the
old Third and Tenth N. G. p. Rcgi
mepts) we're from other states. But
most of the glorious history of the 10th
was made by Pennsylvanians. 1t was
killing history making, however, and
made the requirements necessary.
ficers and 53S men killed in action, 16
officers and 364 men severely wounded,
55 officers and 1865 men slightly
wounded, &c officers and 625 men gasscd
and IL officers and 454 men missing or
prisoners-a grand total of 1851
casualties, or 112 per cent of the
strength of the regiment when it sailed
for France.
Even Billy, the regimental mascot,
'got his" One doughboy insisted yes
terday that Billy--last name Goat
was wounded only because he insisted
upon sticking his fool head over a
trench parapet to nbblc at the grass on
the bank; but anyhow, Sir William is
sporting a wound stripe and two over
seas service bars. Billy was shot through
the ear.
The 10th was the only regiment Of
the division to go into Germany with
the army of occupation.
Companies B and G. of the 10th,
and l. and NJ, of the 109th, figured in
what was the most thrilling story re-
lated in camp this morning.
Surrounded by Foe
These units were the first Americans
TO go in at Chateau Thierry and be-
cause they didn't know how to make a
strategic retreat" and keep pace with
the French on either side of them. they
soon found themselves surrounded by
Germans. ..
Robert Graham. 2729 Sears street.
says the Germans made their biggest
gains by dressing in the uniforms of
) dead and captured allied soldiers and
thus deceiving the Americans. Robert
Fl. Hecker, of Brooklyn, a lawyer who