Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-03
800 Original Members of
Allentown Camp In
cluded in Arrivals
WON NUMEROUS MEDALS
Other Philadelphians Who
Acquired Battle Fame
Landed With Wounded

the first ambulance camp AT ALLehIo"h'
have arrived in this country.
The sections of the most hazardous OF
all army noncombatant service arrived
Z In Newport News aboard the United
states transport President Grant,
Three hundred and sixty members OF
the original personnel of the camp on
the big upstate fair grounds were on
the vessel They will be sent to nearby
cantonments and mustered out within a
few days
This dangerous service was one that
seemed to appeal particularly to young
Fhiladelphians with a love of adven-
ture. In many localities organizations
of young men enlisted as a unit. In one
instance. that of, the Frankford Athletic
Association, all but the five married
men of the organization enlisted for
service with a request for overseas work
as soon as possible. Three of these men
were DECORATED for bravery and four
achieved commissions.
Awards Numerous
The difficulties of the work were rec
ognized at Washington and by army
leaders abroad, and as 4 result more
Distinguished Service Medals and other
awards for bravery were given repre-
sentatives of the ambulance organiza.
lions than any other branch of nom
eombatant service, tile percentage OF
Z such awards being as high in that
branch as in the fighting units.
The ambulance men faced everything
ineted out to the fighting forces, without
having the same opportunity to fight
back which was accorded TO the men in
other front-line organizations.
1t was the ambulance men who had
TO keep the space between the two front
lines cleared of wounded men and who
had to see that the injured received
proper treatment, no matter how great
the German fire or how perilous the trip
from the trenches to the field hospitals.
The oliver ambulances of the corps
went everywhere. And they came back
with flying colors, carrying the wounded
men they were sent to get.
On President Grant
Philadelphians on the President Grant
were
Z Ambulance units-Solomon Boknofsky,
529 Carpenter street; Robert F. Collins.
s042 Cedar avenue: Louis Floro, Fitz-
water street Edwin c. Hathaway. Jr..
no address; Frederick f. Hendler. 1892
South Broad street; william H. Baker,
2036 East Huntingdon street; Ray A.
GranZow, 2056 North Nineteenth street
Lee e. Thornton, 1898 North Camac
street; Sergeant Douglas M Dimond.
1897 Spruce street; John B. Hartranft.
57b0 Spruce street; John r. Cole, 265S
North Thirty-third street: William T.
Joyce, 1886 Fitzwater street, and Earl
NAgLA
Among the sick and wounded were
Harry Salb, 314th Infantry, sO4 New
Market street; Walter Tyson, 315th In
fantry, 2195 East Charleton avenue :
Joseph c. Richards. 1886 Sears street ;
Arthur Dale, 1927 Park avenue Charles
Robinson, 2150 North Seventh street :;
Henry Teldon. 1860 Cherry street; T.
O'Conner, 425 North Fifty-second street
Several Philadelphia woman who did
excellent work in hospitals near the
firing line have arrived back in this
country.
14,418 on Leviathan
Some came aboard the Leviathan. the
big transport that docked at New York
(. yesterday with 14,4l6 veterans, the
greatest number ever transported across
the ocean on one ship. Many local
veterans also were aboard. Others ar
arrived on additional transports docking
at New York
Miss Mary McPhee, 5277 Germantown
avenue. and Miss Alice McGrath GIL
Columbia avenue, arrived on the Levi
athan after ten months spent in the war
zone as nurses.
Both young women went abroad with
Base Hospital No. 90, the Jefferson Hos
Z pital unit. last May. When thev ar
rived at Nantes. the place picked as the
Jefferson base, the hospital was not COM
pieted and the two nurses were among
those who volunteered for advanced SER
I vice while the base hospital was being
completed
Attached TO mobile units, the woman
were constantly in danger Of death from
air bombs or from shells dropped bv
the German big guns. But thev stuck
bravely to their work until the hosnitaI |
: at Nantes was completed and then re-
Joined their unit
Mrs. Eda X. Ohland, 1850 Cbestrut
street, was one OF the nurses who 70
turned aboard the Orizaba. She was as.
signed 10 duty at Chaumont last June
and reports that most of the men treatsd
at that place We're marines of the EiTtb
and sixth Regiments, units that won
everlasting fame at Chateau-Thierrv
N Mrs Ohland pays a high tribute r.
y me marine, both under fire and under ths
surgeon's knife. Neither danger seemaS
( TO affect them. she said and as a resI,I,
many cases which would have been con.
\ sidered hopeless otherwise resuItad ~
complete recoveres. "
The story Of one brave local woman
who returned to this city unheraIda,
after three years of work in the Raj
kans. and who even now Is in the Meth
odist Hospital recovering from the ef
1ects OF her service. was discovered fo