NEWS: Daniel V. AMOS Wounded in France, 1918, of Altoona, Blair County, PA

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AN EMPLOYE OF TRIBUNE IS WOUNDED

CORPORALS DANIEL V. AMOS (Seated), AND CLYDE O. AMOS [photo]

Corporal Daniel V. Amos, 112th Infantry Scout, in a French Base Hospital

  Corporal Daniel V. Amos, employed in the Tribune press room prior to his 
enlistment in Company L, 112th Pennsylvania infantry, and a son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Ralph Amos, of 3016 Pine avenue, is confined to a base hospital in 
France with a wound suffered during the big July drive.
  Two letters were received by his parents yesterday.  The first 
communication dated July 14 stated he was well and enjoying life.  It arrived 
during the morning.  The other missive brought the news that the corporal, 
who is a scout with the infantry company, had been wounded and was written on 
July 28.

Eager to Get Back in Line.

  Although the nature of the young soldier's wound was not made known in his 
letter, he wrote he hoped to get out of the hospital and try another whirl at 
the Hun.  He stated he believed he had given a good account of himself and if 
death should claim him, he didn't want his parents to sorrow and worry about 
him because he was sure he'd help accomplish what the Yankee boys went across 
the blue for.
  An important citation in the letter is the reference to the effect of the 
Americans' advance on the Germans.  Corporal Amos wrote that his company 
especially cut the grey-coats down right and left and an entire regiment of 
them was annihilated before the Yankees slowed their fast and furious pace.
  "If I live to get out of the hospital, I'll try to give a better account of 
myself on the field," was the parting promise in the wounded man's last 
letter.

Brother Was Near Him.

  He has a brother, Corporal Clyde O. Amos, a wireless operator with the 
103rd field signal corps, who is likewise in France.  They had been only two 
miles from one another and had not met since going abroad.  The wounded 
soldier preceded his brother to the land of the poliu [poilu=French WW I 
soldier] by several weeks.
  Enlisting at Bedford, on July 15, 1917, the wounded corporal was suffered 
his first casualty one year and five days later.  He trained at Camp Hancock, 
with the Twenty-eighth division and went overseas in April.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, August 17, 1918, page 1