This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Foster, Kissling, Arries Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/2.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, August 26, 1918 RALPH FOSTER IS WOUNDED RECEIVED BULLET WOUND IN RIGHT ARM MAKING SIX BREAKS IN THE BONE. MEMBER LOYAL SON’S CLASS First of Thirty-Six Members In Service To Receive an Injury. >From Thursday’s Daily. Mrs. Fred KISSLING, who has just returned from North Yakima, Wash., where she has been visiting at the home of her parents, C.M. FOSTER and wife, brings back the news of the wounding of her brother, Ralph FOSTER, of July -0th [sic], the same day that Byron ARRIES was wounded. The wound was a severe one, and the young man is in the American Hospital at Paris, where he is being treated. The wound was in the right arm above the elbow, and the bone was badly shattered, the ball which struck the bone shattering it, and making six distinct breaks. The nurse in charge wrote to the parents at North Yakima, telling of his condition, and saying that the wound was progressing as well as could be expected, but was very severe from the nature of the injury. Ralph Foster is the second son of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Foster, who formerly was employed in the Burlington shops, before they moved to the west some years ago. Ralph was but a youth when he left here and was a member of the Christian church and a member of the Loyal Sons class at that Sunday school. He attended the schools here, and was employed in a mercantile establishment in North Yakima, before he entered the service from his state, Washington. His address is Ralph Foster, Co. A - 8th Regiment A.E.F. His many friends here will be grieved to know of his injury and hope for a rapid and permanent recovery.