The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-04-19
TWO SUBMARINES
SUNK while LOCAL
BOY WAS ON ship

Edward Wendall Gardner entered
the service April 80, 1918, and was
assigned to 22nd Engineers. Company
D, e1st Division; embarked from Ho-
boken, July 81, 1918, and arrived in
Brest, France, Aug. IL. 1918: battles,
st. Mihiel, Belgium. Argonne Forest;
gassed; treatment in several hospit-
ais in France: sailed for United
States June 4. 1919. and arrived in
Hoboken, N. j.. June 10. 1919: dis
charged July IL, 1919. Camp Sher-
man. +s...-------"'
Ednor NJ. Rossiter entered the serv-
ice June 3, 1917, and was assigned to
Squadron A flying cadet, Cincinnati
Base Hospital No. 25. Medical En-
listed Reserve Corps; School Of Aer-
onautics, Ohio State University. and
School of Military Aeronautics. Ohio
State University; commissioned sec
ond lieutenant with rank OF reserve
military aviator, May 20, 1918; dis
Houston, Texas.
James Isaac McNew entered the
service Oct. 4, 1917 and was assigned
to SSth Division, Engineer Pontoon
Trains; embarked July IA. 1918. and
arrived South Wales Aug. !, 1918: bat
ties, Aisne offensive, Aug. IS, 1918, to
Oct. II, 1918; sailed for United States
April 18, 1919, and arrived in Hobok-
en-, N. j.. April q, 1919; discharged
May II; 1919. corporal.
Frank Benn entered the service
July %, 1913, seaman. and after train
ing at Great Lakes. ILL.,, was assigned
to U. s.. s. DeKalb; embarked from
New York City and arrived in Brest,
France. from which place he was sent
to Plymouth. England, on destroy
er: later became a member Of the
crew of the U. S. S. Astoria, which
visited ports in Scotland, Wales, Eng
land, France. Ireland and Portugal;
transferred to the U. S. S. Macona
and released when she went out of
commission at Norfolk, Va.
Claude Mayhem GRADER entered
the service Jan. IA, 1918, and was as
signed to U. S. A. Base Hospital No.
%, Medical Branch, embarked from
New York June 4, 1918 and arrived in
Liverpool. England. June 1e, 1918:
trained in Bordeaux, France; sailed
for United States March II, 1919, and
arrived in Hoboken April 2, 1919; dis.
charged April %, 1919.
Submarines Were Sunk
Charles Lee Harrell entered the
service Dec. 9, 1917, and was assigned
to 268th Aero Squadron, Regular
Army; embarked from Boston, Mass,
July IA, 1918, and arrived in England
Aug. l, 1918; July 80, 1918. ran into
nest of submarines and United States
submarine chasers sank two; sailed
for United States Nov Is, 1918, and
arrived in New York, N. Y, Dec. 1,
1918; discharged Dec. %, 1918, Camp
Sherman, Ohio.
Russell Howard Keller entered the
service in 1917 and was assigned to
Battery A. 18th Field Artillery, Sec
ond Division, Coast Artillery, Fort
Washington, Md; embarked from Ho-
boken, N. j., Dec. IL, 1917, and ar
rived in Brest, France, Dec. 80, 1917;
battles, Verdun sector Chateau
ThierSJ, scissors, Pout Moussons,
st. Mihiel salient, Blanc Mont, Mouse
Argonne; sailed for United States
July 8, 1919, and arrived in Newport
News, Va, July "a, 1919; discharged
Aug. 1, 1919.
Alphonsus Eugene HipSkind entered
the service May, 1918, as seaman, and
after training at Great Lakes, ILL.,,
and Hampton Roads, Va, was assign.
ed to U. S. S. Arkansas, Sixth Divi-
sion Naval Forces; last trip Dec. ~,
1918, arriving in New York; released
May, 1918, receiving ship at New York,
seaman gunner.
Robert Ernest Lawrence entered the
service June IA, 1918, and was assign
ed to Tenth Train Headquarters,
Tenth Regiment, Regular, Army, Indi-
annapolis, Camp Hancock, Ca, and
Camp Funston, Kansas; discharged
Feb. 8, 1919. Camp Funston, Kansas.
John William FLAG entered the SER
vice June 10. 1917, as seaman, second
class, undergraduate student, u S. N.
r. F., and was assigned to Camp De-
catur, Camp Dewey, Great Lakes; re-
leased Dec. 81, 1919, seaman second
class, undergraduate student.
Cyrus Luther Payne entered the ser
vice Aug. %, 1918. and was assigned
to Forty-third company, Eleventh Bat
talon, Depot Brigade. Camp Lee, Vir-
ginia; discharged Jan. 6, 1918; as
sergeant
Two Quick Promotions.
Wilbur Scott Ball entered the serv-
ice May 10. 1917, in Reserve Officers
Training Corps. and was assigned to
Company c, Ninth Training Battalion
. Infantry; commissioned second lieu
tenant and promoted to first lienten-