NEWS: Harry David KEARNS Wounded in France, 1918, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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HARRY DAVID KEARNS WOUNDED IN FRANCE

Altoonan Who Went Over With Pershing Is Wounded While in Action

  Harry David Kearns, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Kearns, of 1520 Tenth street 
and one of Pershing's Boys, has been wounded in action in France and is now 
in a hospital there.  His parents received the word yesterday morning but no 
particulars were given.
  He was for a number of years employed by the Bell Telephone company and is 
aged 25 years.  He enlisted in the regular army four years ago, was on the 
Mexican border in 1916 with Pershing's force and was among the first 
Americans to cross over to France with him.  He is a member of Machine Gun 
Company B, First Battalion.  The news of his being injured in action and 
being in a hospital is the first that his parents and friends have had of him 
since June.

Altoona Tribune, Saturday morning, August 17, 1918, page 10