The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-12-06
WAS 3lArH FIELD ARTILLERY VET
ERAN FOR WHOM VETERANS
FOREIGN WARS POST TAKES
PART OF NAME
KILLED WHILE LEADING HIS GUN
SECTION OF BATTERY "E"
INTO POSITION AT NAN
TnLOIS, FRANCE
MEETINGS OF VETERANS oRaAN1'
zATIoNS CALLED FOR FRIDAY
EVENING TO PLAN FOR
MILITARY FUNERAL

Mrs. Marie kleeh. Of East Wheeling.
Yesterday received a government lele-
gram announcing that tn" h"dN OF her
son. the late Sergeant charles klceh,
il ruruute from France 10 the nIted
States.
The body viii! De landed in New York
Saturday. December 10. and from there
Will Ge forwarded to his mothers home
from where the funeral will be hel"'
probably early next week.
With the announcement that the b"dS
is coming home. preparations were
started asst night 10y K~eeh-lhtllips-
Rhoudes Post No. $50 Veterans OF FOR
,,gn Vars and the 3lIth Field Arili'
lerv Veterans Association for Il mia
ta-y funeral for Sergeant Nleeh. Wheel
ing Post No. ! American Legion also
Is expected to psr,!cipat" in III" funcrsI
A Joint meeting OF The Veterans OF For
eIRn Wars and %l+th Field Artillery
Veterans Association is called for the
laiter's club rooms il the lntrlliErmcer
huilGlug friduy rNrliuC. IcCcmbcr =
10 arnnR for the funeral. Sergeant
Klech ia one OF WhCcliug'S hero dead
for whom Kleeh-P NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Post
No. So Veterans OF Foreign Wars Is
named, and Ne served with the "l'th
F!e.d Artillery from the time me- eiter-
ed the service OF his country until nc
was killed In action.
Charles Kleeh left Wheeling Septem-
Der 20. 1917. for Camp Lee. Virginia.
with Weddings >fprty percent contin-
gent OF selectivs servtre men. AT camp
Lee, he was assigned tr Battery Il
and earned promotion To IN" grade OF
sergeant. He was serving as chlel o.
the Fourth Section OF Battery Il 3lith
Field Artillery on the early morning Of
October ~. 1918. In the advanced ms
battery to a new position In front or
Natillois France. when he was mortallN
WOUNDED by the explosion or a l|"'he
shell lie died that night. A sad feat
ure Of his death was the Tact that ms
brother. Corporal I'll kleeh. was close
enough TO see him wounded. Corporal
Ed Kleeh helped to carry his dying
brother to a first aid station.
Sergeant Charles klech WAS a son Of
Mrs. Marie and the lu;e aul klcch. Sr.
His father and one brother died while
the 3l4lh Field Artillery was overseas.
He leaves his mother. his wife, who be-
fore her marriage to Sergeant klceh at
Petersburg, Va, was Miss Mary Elmer
OF East Wheeling. one sister. MIS-
Marie Kidd. and four brothers. I'd
Frank j.. Frederick and Paul klech.
He was a gass worker. and he and his
brother Ed for years formed the famous
battery of the Duquesne Clubs base
bail tea Charles Klceh was also one
Of Wheeling's foremost football play
ers for a few years before he entered
the army
P~al!beorers for Sergeant kleeh's FUN
eral probably will be selected from the
nine Wheeling young men who served
in his section during the war. or these
Raymond J.. Faland. his gunner corpor'
al, william Bounds. Elmer Schnelle'
CLYDE Bounds, Alex Stevenson, Bernard
Landers n Joe Baum. all OF this city
were with Sergeant k!eeh at their gun
when he fell mortolly wounded. lHul
B~onnenberger and Robert Watkins also
Of Wheeling. were members OF his sec
ton.