Ross Latshaw
Kentucky Post, Monday, 17 March 1919, page 1
A substitute thigh bone from a German prisoner failed to ally
itself with the shattered thigh of Lieutenant Ross Latshaw, who returned to Camp
Taylor Monday after visiting relatives at 1035 Orchard st. Newport. He was
wounded at Soissons and to save his leg, surgeons grated bone from a German
whose leg had been amputated.
Surgeons at Rockefeller Hospital New York City, replaced the German thigh with another. Lieutenant Latshaw enlisted for the Spanish American war 21 years ago. One year ago his organization, a unit of the Second Division, which included the marines who won fame at Belleau Wood, went into action. Latshaw will be given further medical treatment at Camp Taylor.