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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1918
Page
2
The Admiralty reported August shipping losses by Allies and neutrals rose slightly from July to 327,676 gross tons. Allied and neutral losses totaled 151,275 with British losses at 176,401. August saw fewer enemy-action losses than any month since September 1916. Fuel and tonnage entering UK ports also rose by 439,741 tons to 8,158,639.
Illness of Arlington High School principal's son forces postponement of a special Mystic Valley Interscholastic Football League meeting to act on Wakefield High School joining in place of Lexington High School.
The War Department released a casualty list noting nine Massachusetts men among the fallen yesterday. New England totals 22 names across the region.
The day’s official totals list 352 total casualties including 127 missing in action, 102 died of disease, 20 died from wounds, 2 died of accident and other causes, 20 wounded with undetermined degree, and prisoners. Names and exact classifications are partially garbled in the OCR.
A telegram to Harry H. Knowlton of Glenwood Park New London Conn says Corporal Guy R. Knowlton was killed in action on August 14. Subsequent letters from Guy date after his reported death claim he was wounded and in hospital recovering.
Ottawa lists New England residents among wartime casualties. Killed in action A Parker Lynn J E Hinchcliffe New Bedford P E B Libby Needham W J Vincent Springfield P A Doyon Lowell Wounded J Robichaud Franklin N H J Caldwell Charlestown J W Law Barre R Austin Proctor Vt B J Collins Whitinsville A Guay Lewiston Me Missing J J Melville Boston P risoner of War A Baribeau Lynn Died J W Osborne Rockland Gassed R R Williams Hyde Park.
A list of New England military personnel with statuses including killed in action died of wounds and returned to duty. Names span multiple states and towns from Maine Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Rhode Island Vermont and beyond with addresses listed for many individuals. The report names service members such as Arthur Baker Walter Kubli and John Cleary among others and notes statuses in a casualty ledger.
Unofficial reports list Corp. Guy R. Knowlton of Glenwood Park and Pt. Frank Harrison aged 42, with a New London Conn. designation, as casualties.
War casualty list reports several servicemen severely wounded including Lowell C Company 128th Infantry Lt Arthur McKay and others from K Company 28th Infantry Corp James D Kealey Paul A Swanson Luciano Digeronomo Charles S Brown John J Carr and units I Co 316th Inf 77th Div L Co 1%th Inf. Local residents from Bridgeport New Haven Waterbury Roxbury Fitchburg Nashua and Lowell appear in the notices.
Arch bishop Ireland died after a long illness at 3 55 yesterday morning. Tentative plans are under way for his funeral in St Paul Minnesota with his lying in state to follow the wake and service.
The Archbishop expressed his wish to be interred at Calvary Cemetery rather than St. Paul Cathedral Crypt. His Secretary announced the archbishop’s final words as he passed, requesting burial among his people under Calvary’s green sod.
With Arlington schools closed by the Spanish influenza, the high school football eleven and the girls field hockey team pause activities. No practice until reopening likely next Monday. opening football game set for a week from Saturday.
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