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World War I dead and woundedEntry/Object ID
2013.13.1.52a-bDescription
Clippings and memorabilia from World War I scrapbook compiled by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, page 50
Two newspaper articles are glued to page 50. The first bears the headline "Third War Hero Dies in Family of Cousins" Lieutenant Evans, Aviator, Crashes to Death in Fog." In this article [50a], "The third of a trio of hero cousins, C. Thomas Evans Jr., of 203 West Walnut lane, Germantown, was killed in an airplane crash due to a fog as he was returning from France to London in the latter part of October... Lieutenant Evans, who was twenty-four years old, was a cousin of Lieutenant Henry Houston, son of Samuel F. Houston, and of Lieutenant Houston Woodward, son of Dr. George Woodward, both of whom have been killed in the service." A photograph of C. Thomas Evans accompanies the article.
The second article, from July 3, 1918, announces "Germans Capture Chestnut Hill Man." The article continues with a description of the event: "One Philadelphia is reported captured and another wounded, in today's casualty lists, issued by General Pershing. Another, also wounded, is reported by the British War Office. William Jenks Wright, twenty-one, son of Mr. and Mrs. Minturn T. Wright, of Chestnut Hill, Is held in a German prison camp. Young Wright was serving as an ambulance driver with the French somewhere on the Aisne front, and was captured about May 28. His parents are the socially prominent. His mother is the daughter of the late William H. Jenks. His father is in the real estate business."
The second article [49b]
Pages are 7.5 x 10".Photograph Details
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