TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MALVERN TIMES JOURNAL NOVEMBER 21, 1918 P. 8
Dear Hot Spring Co. Friends:
I take great pleasure in telling you a few things about our work, and experiences while in training for service for our country.
After completing an eight-weeks course in the radio schooling at Tulane University, at New Orleans, 68 of our class were sent to the Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind., to receive special training for radio electricians. We arrived here Sept. 14th. The radio section, which is a part of the students Army Training camp here, consists of about 300 men. Besides the radio section, there are 1000 members of the Students Army training corps in training here. Eight states are represented in our company. They are Arkansas, Louisianna, Oklahoma, Kentucky, South Caolina, Iowa, Colorado, and Michigan. Three of us Hot Spring Co. boys are here. They are W. W. Jones, Thos. E. Fitzhugh and I. W.R. Jordan, the other member of our bunch was promoted to the rank of Sergeant while in New Orleans, and was held there to aid in drilling and instructing the recruits. The University here, was closed Oct. 10, on account of the Influenza epidemic, and was opened again for the radio section, Oct. 30th. Of course we were all glad to be back in school again, as we are very anxious to get through with our training and join the brave boys at the front to do our bit toward establishing peace, which now seems to be not very far in the distance. This soldier life is certainly a busy life. We are busy from 6 a.m. till 9:30 p.m. We are all well fed and have everything necessary for our comfort and convenience. We are treated real nice by the people of Bloomington. While the Influenza was in our camp, many of them volunteered their services to aid in taking care of our sick boys, for which we owe them our warmest gratitude. We have frequent entertainments, given by the Y.M.C.A. and W.C.C.S. I am glad to say that my county has always gone over the top and is doing it’s great part in winning the war, and I earnestly hope that it will not be long until peace will reign over the whole world, and the boys can return to their homes and partake of the sweet association, with friends and loved ones.
If this finds room in the columns of our dear county paper, I will write again.
With best wishes to the Times-Journal, and all it’s readers, I am,
Albert E. Behrens.
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TRANSCRIBED BY AMY MINGER
Dear Hot Spring Co. Friends:
I take great pleasure in telling you a few things about our work, and experiences while in training for service for our country.
After completing an eight-weeks course in the radio schooling at Tulane University, at New Orleans, 68 of our class were sent to the Indiana University at Bloomington, Ind., to receive special training for radio electricians. We arrived here Sept. 14th. The radio section, which is a part of the students Army Training camp here, consists of about 300 men. Besides the radio section, there are 1000 members of the Students Army training corps in training here. Eight states are represented in our company. They are Arkansas, Louisianna, Oklahoma, Kentucky, South Caolina, Iowa, Colorado, and Michigan. Three of us Hot Spring Co. boys are here. They are W. W. Jones, Thos. E. Fitzhugh and I. W.R. Jordan, the other member of our bunch was promoted to the rank of Sergeant while in New Orleans, and was held there to aid in drilling and instructing the recruits. The University here, was closed Oct. 10, on account of the Influenza epidemic, and was opened again for the radio section, Oct. 30th. Of course we were all glad to be back in school again, as we are very anxious to get through with our training and join the brave boys at the front to do our bit toward establishing peace, which now seems to be not very far in the distance. This soldier life is certainly a busy life. We are busy from 6 a.m. till 9:30 p.m. We are all well fed and have everything necessary for our comfort and convenience. We are treated real nice by the people of Bloomington. While the Influenza was in our camp, many of them volunteered their services to aid in taking care of our sick boys, for which we owe them our warmest gratitude. We have frequent entertainments, given by the Y.M.C.A. and W.C.C.S. I am glad to say that my county has always gone over the top and is doing it’s great part in winning the war, and I earnestly hope that it will not be long until peace will reign over the whole world, and the boys can return to their homes and partake of the sweet association, with friends and loved ones.
If this finds room in the columns of our dear county paper, I will write again.
With best wishes to the Times-Journal, and all it’s readers, I am,
Albert E. Behrens.
NOTES:
TRANSCRIBED BY AMY MINGER