NEWS: Samuel S. and Edgar L. CROUSE Prisoners of War, 1918, of Somerset County, PA

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LIEUTENANT CROUSE AND SON PRISONERS

Ralph Amos, of Tribune Force, Learns Relatives Were Captured by Huns

  Lieutenant Samuel S. Crouse and his son, Corporal Edgar L. Crouse, reported 
as missing in action in the casualty list of August 7, have now been reported 
as having been taken prisoners by the Germans.  They were members of the 
Somerset company that saw strenuous action during the first week of the 
fighting in the recent great drive in the Chateau-Thierry sector.
  Ralph Amos, of the Tribune composing room, and a brother-in-law of 
Lieutenant Crouse, was last night notified that Crouse and his son had been 
taken prisoners and both were uninjured and well.  The news came through the 
regular channel in reporting of Americans being taken prisoners and sent to 
German prison camps.  Both Lieutenant Crouse and his son are well known in 
this section and in Bedford county.

Altoona Tribune, Friday morning, August 16, 1918, page 10