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HOLE TORN INI ■■ ■ *CAREY IK HOLBROOK TELLS OF INJURY IN LETTER TO GEORGE H. XEIK8,ON PICARDY FRONTCarey D. Holbrook, of Union township, who is in France with the American Expeditionary Forces was struck on the head by a piece of shell on August 10, according to a letter which was received today by George H. Meiks of ‘'his city. Holbrook's name was reported In the war department casualty list several days ago.He stateB in the letter that a piece of a nine inch shell penetrated his J steel helmet and bored through his !enr. He is now in a hospital where he [expects to remain for some time. He says that he is improving and is anxious to get back to the fighting.Holbrook's regiment was fighting with the Br(*iish on the Picardy front near Montdidier He says that he was working a machine gun. when a slvd! exploded about twenty feet away. The letter was written August 15.
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Shelbyville Shelby Republican
Shelbyville, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 19, 1918
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