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WOUNDS PROVE'■FATAL TO LOCAL DRAFT SOLDIERP • 1 1 4 4 1 #Private John Grabowski Left Here With Quota Last September. Frank G. Gualtieri, Who Joined Fighting Ninth, Believed a Prisoner.Private John A. Grabowski of this city is dead in France and Private Frank G. Gualtieri, also of Syracuse, is reported missing hi action. -It is feared that he is dead or ho may be a prisoner. f Grabowski, 116, was a son of Mr. and Mrs. August Grabowski, sr., of No. 122 Culbert street. He ws wounded on June 23d and the dispatch from Adjutant General McCain Monday informed his parents of his ! death, Grabowski left with the September draft quota and was in the Seventh infantry, and ' Gualtieri Jn 'the Fighting Ninth, Gualtieri lived fat No. *107 North State street,i| Missing Man Has Many Friends,\ When the news that Gualtieri was missing in action in France reached the neighborhood in which Ms mother i lived, the whole colony wept. Ho was the son of Mrs* Mary Gualtieri, widow with two small children, aged 10 and 6. He enlisted Iri the ‘'Fighting Ninth at the State fair grounds about a year ago. Ho was 2G years old-“If he had to dio/1 said his mother, I'm glad it was fighting for America. He was a good boy and 'wanted to enlist long before he did. .When I finally told him to go ahead he joined the army at the fair grounds/'The mother sobbed as she spoke. She tried bravely to hide the tears which refused to be concealed.
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Syracuse Herald
Syracuse, New York, US
Tue, Jul 09, 1918
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