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At 10:00 AM, John Voorhees was transported to New York Hospital.
John Voorhees arrived in New York City aboard the French liner La France. Juliana Voorhees left Hartford and arrived that evening to meet him.
A memorial service was held in honor of Howard Arnold Walter at the chapel of the Asylum Hill Congregational Church this evening.
The Courant reprinted an excerpt on John Voorhees from an article by Joseph Odell that had been published in The Outlook.
Juliana Voorhees received a phone call from the YMCA in New York City informing her that John Voorhees was “doing nicely” and that his life “will be saved.”
The Courant received a dispatch from Paris, carried by the Associated Press, on John Voorhees’s condition.
Charles Hesselgrave visited John Voorhees at the hospital and found Voorhees to be “cheerful and happy in spite of some pain and much discomfort.”
John Voorhees’s position came under artillery fire, and he was injured when shrapnel from an exploding shell struck his right leg and broke his femur.
John Voorhees’s location came under attack as he was preparing to go to preach to soldiers from Hartford.