Was Son of August
Karwelat of 509 South Chestnut Street
Drafted from East St. Louis
Brother August is in Hospital With Wound Received
in June
August Karwelat, 509 South
Chestnut Street received a telegram from the war
department at Washington announcing the news that
his son Andrew had been killed in action
somewhere in France on October 9. No details
where given.
Young
Karwelat was not well known here, though he had a
number of acquaintances. He was 25 years of age
and was born in West Virginia. Later he went back
to Lithuania and came to this section of American
about four years ago. He had been employed in
East St. Louis and enlisted there in 1917. He is
survived by his father here, a brother August who
has been in a hospital in France recovering from
battle wounds since June. He also left a mother
and seven brothers and sisters in Lithuania at
the time he came to America, but had no late word
of their fate during the war. The elder Karwelat
here said Tuesday that he understood that the
country where he lived had been taken over by the
Germany and he surmised that his sons there might
have been impressed into the German ranks and had
met the same fate as his son Andrew.
August Karwelat, 509 South
Chestnut Street received a telegram from the war
department at Washington announcing the news that
his son Andrew had been killed in action
somewhere in France on October 9. No details
where given.
