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loigueiu iviui/ain, rue riaj. ueu,GI cun JTa.ll InjuredGlenn Hall, son of 'Mrs. Eva Hall, f writes relatives here under date of i July 24, stating that lie is in the hospital in Prance. He says, I got hit in the right hip with a high explosive shell. The doctor says this morning that I am getting along fine. .Well, there are a few of those Germans who won’t bother any more. This is some experience over here.On July 25, Hall wrote his cousin, •Mrs. J. O. Levea, that he was doing well and that from then on they Would dress his wound only every other day. ‘/I -got it in the right hip, he says, “and can’t sit down yet. They got me from behind and I wasn’t running either. The supper just came in and we are going to have peas, beans, potatoes, bread and coffee. The nurses are sure good to us boys. They will do anything for us. It’s nice to get a place where you can talk to a real American girl once more. They are from the south. John Minor got wounded also hut not very bad.” ' Hall is a member of Co. E 168th Inf. Rainbow Division the same company John Minor and others belong to.Minor In Hospital Relatives her were advised the last of the week that -Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Minor of La Vein, Minnesota, had received a message from the war department advising that Minor was wounded in action on July 15. It seems that Lyle Byers, John Minor and Glenn ' £ Hall were all injured about the same ttime and they all seem to know about f the others. Relatives this week are . \ advised in a letter received from John { Minor , that his wound was slight, be-^ • ing more of a skin wound. Minor is,!,] however, in the hospital. Hall and j Minor are both members of the same , company. I ,\
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Spencer Reporter
Spencer, Iowa, US
Wed, Aug 21, 1918
Page 9
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