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'Sister Hero Receives Hotter Tolling I j, of Injuries Suffered Wliile lighting With Canadian Forces—In- h jurlees Received in Second Trip to Firing June.]■JVI-rIri:Alexander Smith, brother of Mrs.E. H. Vaupel of ll;0-0 West Third street holds the distinction of fceins the first Muscatine man to he wounded in the European war so far as is known here. He now is in a hospital at Toronto, Canada, recovering ^ from the effects of severe wounds which deprived him of his loft limb, while serving with the Canadian army on the French front. ,This information was contained in a letter received recently by Mrs. Vaupel from her 'brother. Young Smith was a resident of this city until his departure for Canada several /years ago. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted with a Canadian artillery company and wont with his company to England for training.iHia first trip to the battle front1 was passed without injury although he experienced many el^se calls, he writes. 'He 'was not so lucky the second time, for it was in the second ' fight on the Qring line that he received the wound which cost him “one of his host friends as he termed It in his letter. This happened some time during the first days of August.The letter contained no information as to the circuinstances surrounding his service in the war and subsequent permanent injury which necessitated his release from the army. Ho states, however, that as soon as ho has recovered sufficiently and has learned to use an. artificial limb he will return in Muscatine. Ho enclosed in his letter a photograph taken at the Orthopedic hospital at Toronto, where he is now confined.
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Muscatine Journal
Muscatine, Iowa, US
Fri, Nov 02, 1917
Page 7
Full Page
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Musser P.
IA, USA 02 Nov 2017
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