NEWS: Mifflin County, PA, War Casualties, August 21, 1918

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MIFFLIN COUNTY HAS HEROES IN BATTLES

One Dies With Face to the Enemy - Others Are in Hospitals Wounded

Special to the Tribune.
  Vineyard, August 20. - The death of William Lloyd Rhoades, 24 years old, 
has been confirmed in a letter from his comrades of company I, 110th U.S. 
infantry, who say he died with his face to the enemy on July 29 and was 
buried with full military honors.  He was one of the first draftees to leave 
Mifflin county and was inducted into the service September 20, 1917, going to 
Camp Meade, Md., and later to Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga., and Camp Merritt, 
N.J., sailing for France on May 2.  According to a letter received by the 
parents dated the day previous to his death he had been under almost 
incessant fire since July 4.  He is survived by his wife and a 5-month-old 
son whom he never saw.  He was a son of Cyrus Hooker and Ella Rhoades.

A. S. BROWNWELL WOUNDED.
Special to the Tribune.
  Lewistown Junction, August 20. - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brownwell received a 
telegram Monday night from the war department announcing that their son, 
Andrew S. Brownwell, 30 years old, had been severely wounded on July 20.  
Private Brownwell has been in the regular army for the past five years and 
was a member of company D, Twenty-eighth U.S. infantry, who, according to the 
news from the front, lost 400 men in twenty-four hours.  A card dated July 
21, postmarked at the base hospital merely said, "Andrew Brownwell O.K."

WOKE UP IN HOSPITAL.
Special to the Tribune.
  Lewistown, August 20. - From letters being received from the front in 
France, company M, 112th U.S. infantry, has been hard hit in the big drive.  
Lieutenant A. R. Mateer writes: "I am in the hospital, doing as well as can 
be expected under the circumstances.  We were the troops under Captain Fred 
McCoy, of Grove City, who threw the initial bridge across the Vesle river and 
took the town of Chateau Diable under heavy artillery fire.  We had eight 
days and eight nights of almost incessant fire and after that I woke up in 
the hospital.
  Wilbur S. Bloom, a member of the headquarters company of the 112th U.S. 
infantry is in the hospital, wounded, and says of his wounds: "I was serving 
as motor dispatch rider and returning from the front under heavy shell fire; 
next thing I knew I was in the hospital with my back, hip and right leg in a 
plaster cast.  The surgeon tells me I will never be able for active military 
duty again, but must go home on detached duty.  This is hardly fair, as it 
gives me no show to get back at the boche."

Altoona Tribune, Wednesday morning, August 21, 1918, page 4