Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-23
WAR COURIER HIT
AFTER 3 ESCAPES
Returning Philadelphian
Ran Often Through
Shell-Swept Fields
TWO COMPANIES BACK
Men From 10Th and, 18th
Divisions on Transports
Reaching New York

Buried three times by shells and
finally put out of action when the
brdgework of his teeth was broken so
he could not use his gas mask, Private
Patrick Coils. 5646 Race street, one
of the many Philadelphia and Pennsyl-
vania soldiers who have just arrived
at New York on transports from France.
considers 1t remarkable that his life
has been spared.
Men have been shot Gown all around
him by enemy shells and machine gun
bullets, and as runner between bat
talon and reglmental headquarters he
had to pass through fields of manned
and dying soldiers. Another runner was
killed at his side. and once an officer to
whom he was about to deliver a message
was blown to bits by shell.
Transports which have arrived at
New York with men of this city and
State aboard are the Manchuria. Cretic
and Orziba. The Melita mas uocked at
Boston
Two companies on the Manchuria--
the 12Gth and Sixteenth Casual Com
panies--wcre composed of Pennsyl
vanians. There were tive officers and
14S men from this state in the Six
teenth Company.
stories of Heroism
These We're men from the twenty
eighth and Seventy-ninth, Pennsylvania's
two famous divisions, and they told
many stories of heroism.
Private John Stratton. 1924 South
Tenth street told of terrific hand-to-
hand battle at Chateau-Thierry. in which
the Americans forced the Germans back
with bayonets. In the same battle
Private Ralph Littlefeld. of Kensington.
fell into shell hole in "A semstupor
from gas. but fought on, picking oil
Germans with his revolver.
Corporal Allan E. Kamar. of Federal
street member Of Company r. ll2th In
fantry, was gassed twice within three
weeks and wounded once by shrapnel.
Among the officers returning on the
Nanchuria was Captain T.. J. Gallagher,
Jr., Philadelphia lawyer, with offices
at ! South Ninth street. He was at
tached to the quartermaster' depart
nent and had supervision over the dis
trhution of supplies for the southern
ports of France.
Captain Walter c. Morris. of Wayne.
returned after service in the technical
section of the air service.
Several wounded officers whose homes
are in Philadelphia were also on the
TRANSPORT one was Lieutenant Jack
Allan. of 24O6 North Third street. of
Company II, of the Seventh Infantry
who was wounded by a machne-gun
bullet and gassed at Chateau Thierry.
Lieutenant Allan was in service for
nine months Just before he left home
he was graduated from the Temple
University
Lieutenant John NJ Forster, St
pavids. of the sixth Field Artillery. was
shot in the foot while fighting on the
Picardy front on April 90.
Among Cny's Wounded
Among the wounded Philadelphians
who fought with the Twenty-eighth Di-
vision from the time 1t reached the front
lines until the latter part of October,
when it distinguished itself in the Ar
gonne Forest. were Sergeant Harry
Jackson. 170S Dickinson street; Ser
Eeant John l.. Cronn, 2O3 North Sixty
seventh street: Corporal Raymond
Campbell, 52s Diamond street Corporal
William DevereuX, 1856 jamestown
street; Privates Charles Schewan. 500
East Westmorcland street Patrick T..
Murphy 1917 North Ninth street
Michael Cullanev. 1882 Tucker street;
Joseph Davis, 225 Wakelng street;
John O'Leary. 6l5G Wheeler street
Herman W. Rcbc. 1925 West Columbia
avenue; J. J. Gillespie. sl3 East GIrard
avenue; William +. Mcbride. 1856 Nc
kean street: Raymond S. Matheys, 2032
East Orleans street Charles HUT, l011
avenue Joseph Croy. 1910
South Randolph street; Frank j.. Nc
Grath. 1888 North Twenty-cighth
street. Albert Blair, @l0l Ridge ave
nue.. and Carl Il. Tobin, 55l7 Spragg
street
Debarkation OF troops and all work
on the pier were suspended shortly after
the Cretic doCked here today. when the
body of Sergeant William j. Phillips
Pa, of the Headquarters
Company of the Fifty-1fth Coast Artil-
lery, was carried down the gang plank
by four of his former comrades.