NEWS: Fred J. DAVIS, Clyde R. HUSTON Wounded in Action, 1918, Blair County, PA

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TWO ALTOONA SOLDIERS ON WOUNDED LIST

Fred J. Davis and Clyde R. Huston on Nation's Great Honor Roll

FRIENDS HERE RECEIVE THE WORD

  Word was received in Altoona yesterday of the severe wounding of two 
soldier boys of the city.  Fred J. Davis, of 409 Third avenue, and Clyde R. 
Huston, of 409 Lexington avenue, are the victims of enemy fire.  Details are 
lacking in both cases, only brief statements of fact being received.
  Fred J. Davis is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Davis.  He enlisted October 
18, 1916, and was sent to Ledora, Texas, for training, going thence to the 
coast for the transport.  He had been in France over a year, having arrived 
there May 28, 1917.  His command was the 28th infantry of the regular army.  
The message of the war department was sent to his brother, Robert, who had 
been named in the emergency address, to avoid the alarming of his mother in 
just such an accident.
  Previous to his enlisting young Davis had worked in the steel car plant of 
the Pennsy.

  "I am wounded," was the brief message received yesterday by Mrs. J. H. 
Miller, of 409 Lexington avenue from her son, Clyde R. Huston, aged 19, who 
is in the medical corps, Twenty-eighth infantry, some where in France.  The 
message came by cablegram and was signed by the soldier son.
  Clyde has been in France almost a year, landing "over there" on August 18.  
The mother has not yet received any official notification of the son's being 
wounded.  The cable gram contained only the three words and the signature.

Altoona Tribune, Tuesday morning, August 6, 1918, page 1