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PRIVATE JACK BRODY, of 101 Chestnut Street in Camden NJ was killed in action on September 27, 1918 in the Argonne Forest. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Brody and enlisted in the 3rd Regiment, National Guard of Pennsylvania in July of 1917. He was assigned to a camp in West Philadelphia and later was sent to Camp Hancock, Georgia, with the regiment which became the 110th Infantry. Private Brody was assigned to Company G when the regiment sailed for France in May of 1918. Jack Brody was buried at Mount Blainville, France when he was killed. After the war, he was brought home, and he rests in the Old Jewish Section of New Camden Cemetery in Camden NJ. His younger brother, Isadore "Issie" Brody, owned and operated a garage in the 500 block of Washington Strreet in the 1940s. |
