TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BENTON COURIER JANUARY 3, 1918 P. 1
I will try to write a few happenings from this camp. This is Christmas Day and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. Some have the blues but they will soon get over that for in the morning at 8:00 we will start "four right and four left," and then we will not have time to think of anything else.
We soldiers had lots to eat. Had a big turkey dinner, candy and just about anything that a Sammie could want for.
This is the first Christmas I every spent away from home, but I am not by myself.
It seems that we will be under quarantine the rest of our days. I have been in the service about four months and have been under quarantine all the time except nineteen days. We were out two days the next week, and I went over the camp and found tonight some of my old friends. I ran across Walter Entler and, believe me, I sure was proud to see him. He is the only one from Saline county that I have found there A lot of us boys got disappointed about getting to go home. The first order was that all of the company would get to go; then it came that five per cent would go, and at the last orders came that we would all stay.
If any of my friends see this letter I would like to hear from them or any one else who wishes to write, for I highly appreciate letters.
I will tell something about the ambulance company. The equipment is animal drawn. It is composed of 150 men, officers and privates, and one hundred mules and horses. It has twelve ambulances. I think the ambulance company is the best branch of the service here, but I don't know so much about it after we cross the pond.
It is quite amusing to see the French and English officers drill the Sammies. They sure have the pep.
Worthen Christian
114th Sanitary Train.
156th Ambulance Company,
Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES: Christian was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 25, 1895 and died on November 3, 1945. He is buried in the Pinecrest Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum in Alexander, Arkansas. He enlisted on September 5, 1917 and was discharged on June 23, 1919. He departed from Hoboken, NJ on August 22, 1918 onboard the Toloa. He was serving as a Cpl. in the 156th Ambulance Co., 114th Sanitary Train. He returned to the US from Marseille, France departing on May 22, 1919 onboard the Duca Daosta. He arrived in New York, New York on June 6, 1919. He was serving as a Cpl. in the St. Aignan Special Medical Casual Company.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
I will try to write a few happenings from this camp. This is Christmas Day and everyone seems to be enjoying themselves. Some have the blues but they will soon get over that for in the morning at 8:00 we will start "four right and four left," and then we will not have time to think of anything else.
We soldiers had lots to eat. Had a big turkey dinner, candy and just about anything that a Sammie could want for.
This is the first Christmas I every spent away from home, but I am not by myself.
It seems that we will be under quarantine the rest of our days. I have been in the service about four months and have been under quarantine all the time except nineteen days. We were out two days the next week, and I went over the camp and found tonight some of my old friends. I ran across Walter Entler and, believe me, I sure was proud to see him. He is the only one from Saline county that I have found there A lot of us boys got disappointed about getting to go home. The first order was that all of the company would get to go; then it came that five per cent would go, and at the last orders came that we would all stay.
If any of my friends see this letter I would like to hear from them or any one else who wishes to write, for I highly appreciate letters.
I will tell something about the ambulance company. The equipment is animal drawn. It is composed of 150 men, officers and privates, and one hundred mules and horses. It has twelve ambulances. I think the ambulance company is the best branch of the service here, but I don't know so much about it after we cross the pond.
It is quite amusing to see the French and English officers drill the Sammies. They sure have the pep.
Worthen Christian
114th Sanitary Train.
156th Ambulance Company,
Camp Beauregard, La.
NOTES: Christian was born in Little Rock, Arkansas on October 25, 1895 and died on November 3, 1945. He is buried in the Pinecrest Memorial Park and Garden Mausoleum in Alexander, Arkansas. He enlisted on September 5, 1917 and was discharged on June 23, 1919. He departed from Hoboken, NJ on August 22, 1918 onboard the Toloa. He was serving as a Cpl. in the 156th Ambulance Co., 114th Sanitary Train. He returned to the US from Marseille, France departing on May 22, 1919 onboard the Duca Daosta. He arrived in New York, New York on June 6, 1919. He was serving as a Cpl. in the St. Aignan Special Medical Casual Company.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD