Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — DR. JOHNSON WAS WOUNDED [ARTICLE]

DR. JOHNSON WAS WOUNDED

LOCAL PHYSICIAN victim -OF GAS AND SHRAPNEL IN SEPTEMBER. Confirmation of the rumtor that Dr. C. E. Johnson, Rensselaer physician, had been injured during the fighting in France during Septem-. ber, has been received by local friends of the doctor. He was the victim of a gas attack and also was wounded in the legs from shrapnel, according to advices received here, and his condition, although much better now, was pretty serious for a time. Dr. Johnson, x oilowing his entrance into the service, was soon sent overseas, and was stationed at a hospital in London with a hospital unit. Later he was sent to France and on -September 12th entered an engagement as'a member of a British unit. It was during this battle that he was injured, being severely gassed and receiving several pieces of shrapnel in the legs. He was then taken to a London hospital for treatment. , stationed at Base Hospital No. 9 in France as a member of a hospital unit. The doctor expects to return to America soon and was to have sailed on January t l7, but it is probable that his condition did not permit him to sail on that date.