The protagonist of this novel is injured after the passing of a noisy gasol
The protagonist of this novel is injured after the passing of a noisy gasoline truck, which leads to him being cut by a wire.  Another character, Mahailey, helps raise the protagonist until he matriculates at Temple College, where he is disillusioned by the attitudes of reverend Arthur Weldon.  The protagonist's brother Bayliss unsuccessfully endeavors to marry his friend Gladys Farmer, who disapproves of the protagonist's marriage to the tee-totalling vegetarian Enid Royce.  After Enid leaves for China to care for her sister the protagonist joins the army, in which he befriends the erstwhile violinist David Gerhardt, but under the command of Colonel Maxey he is killed on the front lines.  Claude Wheeler fights in World War I in, for 10 points, what Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Willa Cather?
The protagonist of this novel is injured after the passing of a noisy gasoline truck, which leads to him being cut by a wire.  
One of Ours