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First Lieutenant Jacob Feldman of 17 West Park Avenue,
Merchantville, was killed under heroic circumstances. He was
attached to Company D, 110th Infantry, formerly the 3rd Regiment,
National Guard of Pennsylvania. He was mortally wounded on
September 12, 1918, in the Marancourt sector, in the advance on
Hill 212. All of the officers of the company were casualties and
Feldman assumed command and reformed the unit and ordered the
charge. As they dashed across the open ground he was hit in the
stomach by an explosive bullet and fell. He struggled to his feet
and beckoned his men on. He was struck by two more bullets and
fell. Handing his papers to First Sergeant Harold M. Nash, he
shouted "Forward, men!" He died in an ambulance on the
way to the hospital. He was buried at Reddy Farm, near Cohan, the
following day. Lieutenant Feldman had been a member of the
National Guard eleven years and was thirty-one years old. His
regiment went overseas in April, 1918, and participated in the
Chateau-Thierry battle. He was the son of Isaac & Dora Feldman, of
Merchantville NJ, and had several brothers and sisters.
In the
late 1920s the War Department of the United States compiled a list of
mothers and widows of deceased soldiers killed in World War I and
offered to send them to their loved one's final resting place in Europe.
In 1930 Dora Feldman made the pilgrimage to France. Isaac
and Dora Feldman moved to the then-new Westfield
Acres Homes in Camden NJ in August of 1938. Dora Feldman she was living
there in May of 1941, when she was photographed on Memorial Day of that
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