TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT DECEMBER 13, 1917 P. 2
Dear Mr. Funk:
The training camp is over and I happen to be among the fortunate ones who got a commission; am now a second lieutenant. The three months in the training camp were the most strenuous I have ever experienced. Our company started with 125 men and we came out as follows: 11 captains, 31 first lieutenants, and 35 second lieutenants. The others were accounted for under the heading, “Those who dropped out.” All fine fellows too, but some would fail in one thing and some in another. I have been assigned to the 21st Inft., San Diego, Calif. and will report for duty not later than the 15th inst. You will please send the Democrat to my address there until further notice. Wishing you a jolly Christmas, a happy and most prosperous 1918.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Fred William Chambers of Rogers, Arkansas from an officers training camp in San Francisco, California. He was the brother of Mrs. W. C. Kirkpatrick of near Rogers. Chambers was a graduate of the Rogers Academy and had moved west several years before the war began. He was born on January 20, 1893 in Rogers and died in 1941. He is buried in the Rogers Cemetery in Rogers.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCCLAY CLEVELAND
Dear Mr. Funk:
The training camp is over and I happen to be among the fortunate ones who got a commission; am now a second lieutenant. The three months in the training camp were the most strenuous I have ever experienced. Our company started with 125 men and we came out as follows: 11 captains, 31 first lieutenants, and 35 second lieutenants. The others were accounted for under the heading, “Those who dropped out.” All fine fellows too, but some would fail in one thing and some in another. I have been assigned to the 21st Inft., San Diego, Calif. and will report for duty not later than the 15th inst. You will please send the Democrat to my address there until further notice. Wishing you a jolly Christmas, a happy and most prosperous 1918.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Fred William Chambers of Rogers, Arkansas from an officers training camp in San Francisco, California. He was the brother of Mrs. W. C. Kirkpatrick of near Rogers. Chambers was a graduate of the Rogers Academy and had moved west several years before the war began. He was born on January 20, 1893 in Rogers and died in 1941. He is buried in the Rogers Cemetery in Rogers.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCCLAY CLEVELAND