NEWS: William Chester GIARTH Wounded in Action, 1918, of Altoona, Blair County, PA

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PRIVATE WILLIAM C. GIARTH WOUNDED IN ACTION IN FRANCE

PRIVATE WILLIAM C. GIARTH [photo]

  Private William Chester Giarth, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Giarth, of 
3009 Spruce avenue, and a member of Company G, 110th regiment, is numbered 
among the Altoona boys who were engaged in the heroic fighting in the Chateau 
Thierry sector and who was wounded, fortunately not seriously.
  Private Giarth in a letter received by his mother yesterday disclosed that 
he had been injured and was now located in Base Hospital No. 48.  The letter 
follows:
  Just a few lines to let you know that I am getting along very good.  I have 
been in a battle and am wounded in the left leg.  I am in a base hospital and 
am getting treated fine.  There are a couple of fellows from my company who 
are in the same ward.  The doctors I don't think you could find any better 
and the same way with the nurses.  This is all for this time.  I will try and 
write more the next time.

Altoona Tribune, Wednesday morning, August 21, 1918, page 8