TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VAN BUREN COUNTY DEMOCRAT JULY 26, 1918 P. 1
Hampton Roads, Va., July 16th.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT,
Clinton, Ark.
Dear Sir:
If you will accord me the necessary space for a few lines would be pleased to let my friends in Van Buren County know where I am located as it would be out of the question to write them personally. I will never get so far away as to forget my friends in that county and from whom I would be pleased to hear. When we get the Kaiser I am coming home to stay.
We left Little Rock July 3d. via St. Louis, Cincinnatti and Indianapolis, for Norfolk, arriving two days later. We had a nice trip. Our barracks are sure sanitary; everything shining.
Our hammocks are about six feet from the floor and we get plenty of air. My instructor appointed me a petty officer of our “bunch.” There are twelve in our barracks and they are a fine lot of boys. We came through the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. The road through West Virginia isn’t anything but tunnels, but the scenery from St. Louis to Virginia was fine.
Send my paper here for I am lost without it. Will be here for two weeks.
Yours truly,
E. E. CANERDAY
Naval Operating Base, Unit X. Hampton Roads, Va.
NOTES: Elves Edgar Canerday was born on January 24, 1888 in Appleton, Arkansas and died on December 27, 1975 in Russellville, Arkansas. He is buried in the Clinton Cemetery in Clinton, Arkansas. He enlisted on July 2, 1918 and was discharged on January 26, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Hampton Roads, Va., July 16th.
EDITOR DEMOCRAT,
Clinton, Ark.
Dear Sir:
If you will accord me the necessary space for a few lines would be pleased to let my friends in Van Buren County know where I am located as it would be out of the question to write them personally. I will never get so far away as to forget my friends in that county and from whom I would be pleased to hear. When we get the Kaiser I am coming home to stay.
We left Little Rock July 3d. via St. Louis, Cincinnatti and Indianapolis, for Norfolk, arriving two days later. We had a nice trip. Our barracks are sure sanitary; everything shining.
Our hammocks are about six feet from the floor and we get plenty of air. My instructor appointed me a petty officer of our “bunch.” There are twelve in our barracks and they are a fine lot of boys. We came through the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia. The road through West Virginia isn’t anything but tunnels, but the scenery from St. Louis to Virginia was fine.
Send my paper here for I am lost without it. Will be here for two weeks.
Yours truly,
E. E. CANERDAY
Naval Operating Base, Unit X. Hampton Roads, Va.
NOTES: Elves Edgar Canerday was born on January 24, 1888 in Appleton, Arkansas and died on December 27, 1975 in Russellville, Arkansas. He is buried in the Clinton Cemetery in Clinton, Arkansas. He enlisted on July 2, 1918 and was discharged on January 26, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD