TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER OCTOBER 3, 1918 P. 4
Camp Pike, Ark.
Sept. 22 1918
Mr. Editor and the A. R.:
Will you make room in your paper for a soldier boys letter. As I have nothing to do to day I will drop a few lines to my friends and the readers of the Advance Reporter. I hope every is enjoying life and having a good time. I am all ok and I like army life very well.
There is quite a bunch of Uncle Sam’s boys at Camp Pike at the present but he is giving several of them permission to go across the pond and the most of them are willing to go. He is going to give me a free pass across the pond and he wants several more to go too, so I won’t be by my self, but it will be a good trip for us boys.
Come on boys and let us get the Kaiser while the first boys have got so close to him as they have come on boys and I think we will get him in a short time.
He can’t stay hid much longer for Uncle Sam has got a good number of boys that say they can get him when they get across Well I hope every body good luck and a happy Christmas. I took Xmas last year at Parks Ark. but I aim on taking Xmas in Berlin this year. I will close for this time and go to dinner.
Uncle Sam feeds his boys good it seems to me like being at a picnic or at a big meeting. So long and luck to every body I would like to hear from every body and know how they are getting along.
Yours for luck,
Pvt. John D. Alley.
Co. G 2nd. Bn. 1st. Regt.
Inf. T & R Division,
Camp Pike, Ark.
NOTES: John D. Alley was born in Chant, Arkansas on May 14, 1899 and died on November 22, 1973. He is buried in the Bardsdale Cemetery in Fillmore, California. He enlisted at Waldron, Arkansas on September 2, 1918 and was discharged on December 19, 1918. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Pvt. serving in the US Army in WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp Pike, Ark.
Sept. 22 1918
Mr. Editor and the A. R.:
Will you make room in your paper for a soldier boys letter. As I have nothing to do to day I will drop a few lines to my friends and the readers of the Advance Reporter. I hope every is enjoying life and having a good time. I am all ok and I like army life very well.
There is quite a bunch of Uncle Sam’s boys at Camp Pike at the present but he is giving several of them permission to go across the pond and the most of them are willing to go. He is going to give me a free pass across the pond and he wants several more to go too, so I won’t be by my self, but it will be a good trip for us boys.
Come on boys and let us get the Kaiser while the first boys have got so close to him as they have come on boys and I think we will get him in a short time.
He can’t stay hid much longer for Uncle Sam has got a good number of boys that say they can get him when they get across Well I hope every body good luck and a happy Christmas. I took Xmas last year at Parks Ark. but I aim on taking Xmas in Berlin this year. I will close for this time and go to dinner.
Uncle Sam feeds his boys good it seems to me like being at a picnic or at a big meeting. So long and luck to every body I would like to hear from every body and know how they are getting along.
Yours for luck,
Pvt. John D. Alley.
Co. G 2nd. Bn. 1st. Regt.
Inf. T & R Division,
Camp Pike, Ark.
NOTES: John D. Alley was born in Chant, Arkansas on May 14, 1899 and died on November 22, 1973. He is buried in the Bardsdale Cemetery in Fillmore, California. He enlisted at Waldron, Arkansas on September 2, 1918 and was discharged on December 19, 1918. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Pvt. serving in the US Army in WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS