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PENNSYLVANIA WAR HISTORY COMMISSION. * "***"
PENNSYLVANIA COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE AND COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
| WAR SERVICE RECORD
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Fili in for any member of yoiw family in the military or naval service of the United States or of the Alliod
i Countries, from July 28, 1914, to date, and mail to 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia.
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i 1. Name
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; 2. Home Address (P. O.)
(Street Address) . 4
3. Next of kin
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Address Relationship
4. Age at entrance into service 5. Date of entrance into service
I 6. Branch of service (a) Regular Army. (d) Navy.
(b) National Guard. (e) Naval Reserves.
(c) National Army. (f) Marine Corps.
6a. Service in Army or Navy of Allies —Give Nation and Branch of service. #
7. If in the Army, answer the following:
(a) Department
Infantry, Artillery, Medical Corps, etc.
(b) Name and Number of Company, Regiment, etc
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(c) Where and when located since beginning service. (See point 12 below.)
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(d) Rank, with dates of promotions
Name each Camp, Fort or Station. (See point 12 below.)
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t. If in the Navy, or Naval Reserves, or Marine Corps, answer the following: (See point 12 below.)
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(a) Name of ship, or ships.
(b) Branch of Service
(c) Exact Rank with dates of promotioas
•. Casualties:
If died in the service, or killed, wounded, gassed or missing in action, give on another sheet date of death,
cause of death, date and place of battle, and details concerning casualties.
10. If decorated or cited for bravery, or special service, give date and complete details. (See point 12 below.)
11. Date of Discharge
12. Note: If space after a number on this blank is not sufficient, please note additional facts on a separate
sheet. .Furnish also, if possible, photograph, sketch of life, war experience, letters, diaries or any other in
teresting information.
Return to the PENNSYLVANIA WAR HISTORY COMMISSION, 1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Submitted by
Address
Date #
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Every Name is Wanted For the Official State Records.
Read the above questions carefully and answer them fully so that honor may be given where honor is
due —to th'j State of Pennsylvania and its gallant defenders. The War History Commission, of the Pennsylva
nia C>tincil of National Defense, is compiling an official record for historical purposes, of the men who, during
the great war, entered the military and navafc service of the United States or the Allies.
Names of men who voluntarily enlisted are, in particular, apt to be missing from the Honor Roll unless
furnished by their families or friends. But all names, whether those of men who enlisted or who entered the
service by draft selection are wanted.
Fill out a War Service Record for your soldier or sailor boy and mail It without delay. ....
' lo: bbJ Ykg demands upon Industru are too greats 1 *■ ■
fea ISE I |3|g to permit us to ever go hack to our wasteful I gp»
pre-war habits: DON'T WASTE COAL.. |f|p
ftSHES SIFTED MEANS COM, SAVED
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NO one would oegrudge wasted coal if it fell later into the hands of users, as coal on the ash dumps of New
York is gleaned by the children of the East Side.
The trouble is that the five buckets full of coal which the average householder wastes each week by not sift
ing his ashes do no one any good.
Sift your ashes, save coal, save money, and help stretch the scant supply of anthracite this winter.
Patriotism.
Who can measure the compelling
force of patriotism? At Sunday night's
Battery concert, largely attended by
Manhattanites to whom north of Four
teenth street is a foreign land, the lead
er asked that after the singing of the
national anthem the audience offer one
minute'g silent prayer for the boys over
there. One whose head did no£ bow
promptly, seemingiy hel# alert by the
shock of some amazing surprise, soon
acknowledged the force of patriotic
emotion by saying, as he bowed his
head: "I prayed last Easter, but if
it is for the boys —here goes."—New
York Sun. j
Going Up.
"Service flags are being raised ev
erywhere," exclaimed the patriotic fel
low.
"Oh, well, so is everything else, for
that matter," muttered the cynical
cuss.
HERE ARE TWO SIMPLE HOME-MADE ASH SIFTERS
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Ash Sifter Hard to Beat as
Money Saver; Easy
to Build.
The illustration in the upper right
represents a homemade ash sifter made
from plain boards and one-half inch
mesh cellar window wire. Its meas
urements are 30x27 inches, and it has
an elevation of one foot.
In the center is another view of the
same ash sifter. It shows the sifter
placed against the ash pit of a heater,
with a~ box in back of it to catch the
reclaimed coal.
Ashes are drawn from the ash pit
with hoe, as shown in illustration. As
RED CROSS GIFTS
$400,000,000
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War Council on Retirement An
nounces Cash and Supplies
Contributed.
WORKERS WILL "CARRY ON."
Five Big Societies in World Wide Plan.
H. P. Davison Heads International
American Red Cross Commission.
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Dr. Livingston Farrand Permanent
Leader of Peace Organization.
Washington.—(Special.)—Henry P.
Davison as chairman issues the follow
ing statement on behalf of the War
Council of the American Red Cross:
"To the American People:
"The War Council of the American
Red! Cross appointed by President Wil
son !on May 10, 1917, to carry on the
worjk of the American Red Cross dur
ing the war, at their request and by!
vote of the Central Committee, ceased '
at njddnight, February 2S.
"Immediately the armistice was
signed the War Council instituted
studies to determine when the strict
ly war work of the organization would
have been sufficiently matured to en
able the direction of affairs to be re
sumed by the permanent staff. Henry
P. Davison, being in Paris when the
armistice was signed, summoned a
conference there of the heads of all
the Red Cross Commissions in Europe
to canvass the situation. After con
sidering all the factors it was con-'
eluded to make the transition on
Maivh 1. The very fortunate choice i
of Dr. Livingston Farrand as the new
Chainnan of the Central Committee. .
and thereby the permanent chief ex
ecutive of the Red Cross, makes possi
ble the consummation of this plau un
der the most f.tvorable conditions.
Accounts Audited by War Department.
"Detailed reports to Congress and a
complete audit of its accounts by the !
War Department will constitute the
final record of Red Cross activity dur
ing the war. Although it has been j
the rule to make public all expendi
tures when authorized and to give de
tailed information relative to all work i
undertaken, the War Council in turn
ing over its responsibilities to Dr. Far- |
rant and his associates desire to give
a brief resume of Red Cross war time j
activities to the American people, to
wh«m the Red Cross belong, and whose
generous contributions have made pos
sible all that has been accomplished.
'•During the past nearly twenty-on?
moiths the American people have
given in cash and supplies to the '
American Red Cross more than $400,-
OOOPOO. No value can be placed upon
the contributions of service which
have been given without stint and of
tenimes at great sacrifice by millions
of our people.
"The effort of the American Red
Cross in this war has constituted by j
far the largest voluntary gifts of
money, of hand and heart, ever con
tributed purely for the relief of hu
mac suffering. Through the Red Cross
the heart and spirit of the whole
American people have been mobilized
to take care of our own, to relieve the
misery incident to the war, and also
to reveal to the world the supreme
ideals »f our national life.
"Everyone who has had any part in j
this wsr effort of the Re 4. Crosg. is en
they are pulled over the mesh the
ashes drop through the sifter and the
recovered coal falls into the box. The
purpose of this form of sifter is to
allay dust and reduce work.
In the lower illustration Is a simple
titled to congratulate himself. No
thanks from anyone could be equal in
value to the self satisfaction every
one should feel for the part taken.
Fully 8,000,000 American women have
exerted themselves in Red Cross serv
ice.
Has Over 17,000,000 Adult Members.
"When we entered the war the
American Red Cross had about 500,000
members. Today, as the result of the
recent Christmas membership Roll
Call, there are upwards of 17,000,000
full paid members outside of the mem
bers of the junior Red Cross, number
ing perhaps 9,000,000 school children
additional.
"The chief effort of the Red Cross
during the war has been to care for
our men in service and to aid our
army and navy wherever the Red
Cross may be called on to assist. As
to this phase.of the work Surgeon Gen
eral Ireland of the U. S. Army recent
ly said : 'The Red Cross has been an
enterprise as vast as the war itself.
From the beginning it has done those
things which the Army Medical Corps
wanted done, but could not do itself.'
"The Red Cross endeavor in France
has naturally been upon an exception
ally large scale where service has
been rendered to the American Army
and to the French Army and the
French people as well, the latter par
ticularly during tiie trying period
when the Allied World was waiting
for the American Army to arise in
force and power. Hospital emergency
service for our army in France has
greatly diminished, but the Red Cross
is still being called upon for service
upon a large scale in the great base
hospitals, where thousands of Ameri
can sick and wounded are still receiv
ing attention. At these hospitals the
Red Cross supplies huts and facilities
for the amusement and recreation of
the men as they become convalescent
Our Army of Occupation in Germany
was followed with Medical units pr*
pared to render llie same emergency
aid and supply service which was the
primary business of the Red Cros#
during hostilities. The Army Canteen
service along the lines of travel has
actually increased since the armistice.
"As for work among the French peo
ple, now that hostilities have ceased,
the French themselves naturally pre
fer as far as possible to provide for
their own. It lias accordingly been de
termined that the guiding principle of
Red Cross policy in France henceforth
shall be to have punctilious regard to
its every responsibility, but to direct
its efforts primarily to assisting
French relief societies. The liberated
and devastated regions of France have
been divided by the government into
small districts, each officially assigned
to a designated French relief organi
zation.
"The American Red Cross work in
France was initiated by a commission
of eighteen men who landed on French
shores June 13, 1917. Since then
some 9,000 persons have been upon the
rolls in France, of whom 7,000 were
actively engaged when the armistice
was signed. An indication of the pres
ent scale of the work will be obtained
from the fact tiiat the services of 6,000
persons are still rc-quired.
"Our American Expeditionary Force
having largely evacuated England, the
activities of the Red Cross Commis
sion there are naturally upon a dimin
ishing scale period. Active operations
are still in progress in Archangel and
Siberia.
"The work in Italy has been almost
entirely on behalf of the civilian pop
ulation of that country. In the critical
hours of Italy's struggle the American
people, through their Red Cross, sent
a practical message of sympathy and
relief, for which the government and
people, of Italy hnrp. never ceased to
form of ash sifter which can be made
with four boards, or a box sawed In
half, a broomstick and a piece of on»-
half inch mesh cellar window wire.
This style of sifter is efficient but scat*
ters more dust than the other.
express their gratitude.
Supplies and Personnel to Near East
"The occasion for such concentra
tion of effort in Italy, England, Bel
gium and even In France having natur
ally and normally diminished, it has
been possible to divert supplies and
personnel in large measure to the aid
of those people in the Near East who
have hitherto been inaccessible to out
side assistance, but whose sufferings
have been upon an appalling scale.
The needs of these peoples are so vast
that government alone can meet them,
but the American Red Cross Is making
an effort to relieve Immediately the
more acute distress.
"An extensive group of American
workers has been dispatched to carry
vitally needed supplies, and to work
this winter in the various Balkan coun
tries. In order to co-ordinate their ac
tivities, a Balkan commission has been
established, with headquarters at
Rome, Italy, from which point alone
all the Balkan centers can be reached
promptly.
"A commission has just reached Po
land with doctors and nurses, medical
supplies, and food for sick children
and invalids. An American Red Cross
Commission has also been appointed
to aid in relieving the suffering of Rus
sian prisoners still confined in German
prison camps.
"An important commission is still
working in Palestine. Through the
war special co-operation has been
given to the Armenian and Syrian Re
lief Commission, which was the onlj
agency able to carry relief in the in
terior of Turkish dominions.
Red Cross Will Continue.
"Red Cross effort is thus far flung.
It will oontinue to be so. But the
movement represented by this work
has*likewise assumed an intimate place
in the daily life of our people at home.
The army of workers which has been
recruited and trained during the war
must not be demobilized. All our ex
perience in the war shows clearly that
there is an unlimited field for service
of the kind which can be performed
with peculiar effectiveness by the Red-
Cross. What its future tasks may be
it Is yet impossible to forecast. We
know that so long as there is an Amer
ican army in the field the Red Cros
will have a special function to perform.
"Nothing could be of greater impor
tance to the American Red Cross than
the plans just set in motion by the five
great Red Cross societies of the world
to develop a program of extended ac
tivities in the interest of humanity.
The conception involves not alone ef
forts to relieve human suffering, but
to prevent it; not alone a movement
by the people of an individual nation,
but an attempt to arouse all people to
a sense of their responsibility for the
welfare of their fellow beings through
out the world. It is a program both
ideal and practical. Ideal in that its
supreme aim is nothing less than ver
itable "Peace on earth good will to
men," and practical in that it seeks to
take means and measures which are
actually available and make them ef
fective in meeting without delay the
crisis which is daily recurrent in the
lives of aH peoples.
Mr. Davison, as chairman of the In
ternational Commission of the Ameri
can Red Cross, has undertaken to rep
resent the ATneriean Red Cross in the
preparation of the program for extend
ed Red Cross activities, and will spend
the next several months in Europe in
consultation with other Red Cross soci
eties for that purpose.
THE WAR COUNCIL OF THE AMER
ICAN RED CROSS.
Henry P. Davison, Chairman.
The First Requisite.
"When is their marriage to be sol
emnized?" "As soon as it has been
financed."—Boston Transcript.