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Show LEGION MAN OBTAINS PATENT Twice Wounded, Engineer While Confined Con-fined to Hospital, Works Out Bronze Tablet. Wounded by the explosion of a high explosive shell In the Vosges moim-jsriv moim-jsriv tains. Frivate R. G. Quehl, 318th fL Engineers, lay on ' 8 hard cot in a .:( hospital and won- 4 dered about his V, chances of getting , sv home. He reeov- J i $ ored, h o w ever, " went into action, ' ' v. 1 ancl ou November fc v 1 '-, was again fcf v wounded. f-AWw.vis&aaaiMi:4 Brought back to America and placed in the base hospital hos-pital at Camp Lewis, Wash., Quehl worked out the details for a bronze memorial tablet. While awaiting his discharge he drew up the plans, and in civilian life again, he has obtained a patent on an invention which he calls the individual war memorial. It 'is a plaque of bronze with the figure of a private In war uniform. Around the plaque in raised letters are the names of the allied countries. A plate to be engraved with the service serv-ice record is in the center. Orders are pouring in so rapidly that he has been forced to enlarge his working force. |