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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1918
Page
13
The surgical dressing committee of New York received France’s Gold Medal in recognition of their efforts to combat epidemics.
The War Department publishes a casualty list totaling 1270 names, the largest in months, with increases in the numbers wounded and killed. The two lists from yesterday and this morning show totals for killed in action, died of wounds, died of disease, died of accident, severely wounded, slightly wounded, wounded, and missing in action, suggesting further enlargements ahead.
A long list of names with ranks and addresses appears under an official notice. Soldiers from multiple states including New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut and Rhode Island are named withCorps and Battalion designations. The roster includes enlisted men privates second lts sergeants and corporals from various units across the region.
Unofficial roster of service members with ranks units and addresses in Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire and nearby towns. Includes Peter Montana Charles Fallowell Thomas Hobart Vernon Churchill Eugene Tirrell Emil Trottier George Hinman Henry Gosselin Arthur Degavier Antone Medeiros Earl Woods Harold Barnes Ralph Lavasseur William Tryder George Horsfall and others with home towns such as East Boston Waterbury New Bedford Worcester Cheshire Unionville and Manchester.
Ottawa reports New England names in today’s casualty list. Entries include killed in action Lieutenant W. C. Finn Belmont. prisoners J. P. Du fresne Boston C. J. Ryan Bangor Me. wounded J. A. Chapman Quincy J. H. Strickland Brighton. plus several others with towns in Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire and Maine.
Theodore Beaudry a nine year old of Medway slipped while riding a freight train near the local station and was critically injured. He lost his right arm and right foot and is at Milton hospital with little hope of recovery. He has two brothers in service in France, one recently wounded in action.
A group of voters from Wards 5 and 6 petitions Governor McCall to appoint election supervisors for each precinct in the two wards for the November 5 election. The letterhead shows Congressman Tague and is signed by 10 signatories.
The fragment states that qualified voters of each ward urged the Governor to take action under Section 240, Chapter 8% of the 1913 acts. It cites a legal provision requiring executive response to ward inquiries. The text preserves the formal tone of a constitutional or municipal notice.
An extra freight train on the Berkshire division of the Boston and Maine railroad killed a worker early this evening. The body was found on the tracks by a passing train conductor. Arthur W. Johnson, 28, of Mechanicville, a brakeman, fell from a switching engine about two hours earlier. Both legs were crushed and amputation was required at Troy Hospital.
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