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HUN BOMB IN TRENCH WOUNDS JOPLIN MAN, —*• -• mm i m nmWi i ■«»Hhcrm;in IjodK Injured by shrnpnol With five Companion*—I n«dergoo* Two 0|Lfr«tloni.Information or the wounding July 29 of Sherman Long, a Joplin j' mini, in France was contained in a jlt; fetter received yesterday from him 1l,v his grandmother. Mrs. Martha LLong. No. 160!# Indiana avenue, He jhad been In the hospital and tin* idergdne two operation* and was re-1 ( covering at the time he wrote the i J’otter home. •Lo^g »Jd in his letter, written J, u hospital August «, that he,1 i*h live companions, was in a j t nch when a Herman bomb was ' ' irled Into the trench. All six of 1 •e Americans were more or less j . »r-Jured. Lone received a piece of | L.rapnel in his back. He was tak- j m to the hospital and it was n#cev s; rv that an X-ray examination be | made to locate the shrapnel.With Hospital Detachment. i « lxmg is a member of the hospital i * corps, attached to the 130th m»- , chine gun battalion, consisting j* mostly of Joplin men. He was etn* j Tdoyed at the Walk-Over shoe store', here when he enlisted with the! medical department of the old Second Missouri infantry, which was trained at Nevada, Mo., and Lamp Doniphan. Okla., before being sentoverseas. iHe made his home with hisj grandmother since the death of hist parents when he was a young child. Mrs. Long has a son, Walter Long, w ho left Joplin w ith the same unit as her grandson, but she never has • heard from him since he w-ent to] France. I
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Joplin Sunday Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Sun, Sep 08, 1918
Page 6
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