Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

JOHN VISOSKY, private, Company
B, 109th Infantry.
MICHAEL E. HOWARD, private,
Company D, 1O3d Engineers.
WALTER M. STARZYNSKT, pri-
vate, Company c, 10th Infantry.
ANTHONY HARRIS, private, Com
pany D, 1Osth Machine-Gun Bat
talon.
FRANK r. SCHANING, corporal,
Company A, 10th Infantry.
JAMES MULCH, private, Company
d, Tooth Infantry.
H. Q. GRIFFIN, second lieutenant,
Company B, 1O9th Infantry.
PETER YOHODA, private, Com
pany B, 109th Infantry.
JOSEPH DODOZK, private, Com
pany B, 109th Infantry.
FRANCIS X. CONLEY, private,
Company X, 1O9th Infantry.
HUGH F. DOUGHERTY, private,
Company X, 1O9th Infantry.
JAMES R. MONTGOMERY, private,
Company X, 1O9th Infantry.
HAROLD E. GOULD, sergeant,
Company X, 1O9th Infantry.
WlLLMAN, corporal, Company L,
109th Infantry.
WILLIAM L. NEEL, corporal, Com
pany C, 1O9th Infantry.
WILLIAM DOLAN, private, Com
pany c, 109th Infantry.
JAMES H. PATTEN, corporal, Com \
pany D, 109th Infantry.
JAMES R. MONTGOMERY, private,
Company X, 1O9th Infantry.
SAMUEL LUKATSKY, private,
Company K, 109th Infantry.
RODNEY JOHNSON, private, Com
pany X, 109th Infantry.
FRANK P. HEALY, private, Com
pany X, 109th Infantry.
ARTHUR V. DRAKE, private, Com
pany X, 109th Infantry.
HARRY F. WOOD, corporal, Com
pany X, 109th Infantry.
JACQUES FIESHTER, corporal,
Company X, 1o9th Infantry.
THOMAS B. KELLY, sergeant,
company N, lOOIll I'LL dllIIy.
DAVID FRIEDMAN, private, Com
pany D, 103d Engineers.
JAMES C. ROLLEY, JR., private,
Company B, 103d Engineers.
JAMES T. EVANS, private, Com
pany F, 111th Infantry.
HERBERT w. ALLISON, private,
Company c, 111th Infantry.
Germans Start Retreat
Hundreds were wounded and
scores reported missing when the
/ Germans began their retreat on the
evening of July 18, but not a man
in the division would have escaped
the action. 1t was the turning point
in the war, And the Iron Division
had played an important role.
1t would be unfair to cite the
heroic deeds of the regiments with
out citing a few personalities. All
proved brave, but among the thou
sands who participated in the three
days engagement it is doubtful If
any man came through with a more
lustrous record than Colonel Edward
Martin. In that engagement he was
major and in command of bat
talon.
When the Germans struck his
regiment-the 110th-Major Martin
drew his revolver and yelled: '1Il
shoot the first man who gives
ground" Major Martins deterni-
nation to stem the German tide in
spired the doughboys, and caused
many of the men to perform unusual
/ feats of heroism.
One of the men who demonstrated
the fighting qualities of the Penn
sylvania division was Captain w. G.
Truxal, commander of &C" company,
10th. Out of $50 men commanded
by Truxal, there were more than 180
casualties. Truxal was surrounded
when reforming his lines and taken
prisoner.
Walter Murray, Y. M. C. A.
secretary, assigned to the 109th In
fantry, stuck by his command and
was killed by shell fire.
Find "Man of Mystery"
That a German spy in the ranks
of the 109th Infantry was killed
by his own countrymen is the belief
expressed by many officers, for when
the burial squads began their tasks
on the morning of July 10, a man of
mystery was discovered.
Lying on the field and dressed in
a French uniform was Arsene
! Guentel. A German bayonet had
pierced his heart. The French never
succeeded in solving the mystery of
Arsene Guentel and to this day the
real identity of the soldier is