TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE FEBRUARY 15, 1918 P. 2
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg, Miss. Feb. 9, 1918
To Editor Tribune:
I just received a few clippings from the Tribune of letters of several different friends of mine who are in the service in different parts of the country. Will just fill in with a few words from this corner of the country.
I am serving my second enlistment with the Indiana Troops. Since I left the Green Forest school some years ago, I have served with the Ind. Artillery on the Mexican Border in 1916-17 and am now in the Ambulance corps or Sanitary train. We arrived here from Indianapolis the fifteenth day of last September. Our camp is in the pine forest of Mississippi, about the central part of the state and is a very good location being only a few miles distance from a good town, Hattiesburg.
The company to which I belong is entirely motorized, with Stutz motor ambulances, Excelsior motorcycles and G.M.C. trucks, and it is a part of the Medical Department.
Our drill consists of three hours foot movements in the forenoon and three hours school in surgery, therapeutics, pharmacy and matera-medica in the afternoon. So you see we are kept busy most of the time.
Will say that I would be glad to hear from any of my old friends in the service, also any of my old schoolmates that care to drop me a few lines. I am as ever,
Your friend,
Sergt. Lillard T. Collins,
Amb. Co. 149, 38th Division,
113th Sanitary Train, Camp Shelby,
Hattiesburg, Miss.
NOTES: Collins was born on March 10, 1893 and died on October 16, 1951. He is buried in the Auman Cemetery in Boone County, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Indiana Sgt. serving in WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON
Camp Shelby
Hattiesburg, Miss. Feb. 9, 1918
To Editor Tribune:
I just received a few clippings from the Tribune of letters of several different friends of mine who are in the service in different parts of the country. Will just fill in with a few words from this corner of the country.
I am serving my second enlistment with the Indiana Troops. Since I left the Green Forest school some years ago, I have served with the Ind. Artillery on the Mexican Border in 1916-17 and am now in the Ambulance corps or Sanitary train. We arrived here from Indianapolis the fifteenth day of last September. Our camp is in the pine forest of Mississippi, about the central part of the state and is a very good location being only a few miles distance from a good town, Hattiesburg.
The company to which I belong is entirely motorized, with Stutz motor ambulances, Excelsior motorcycles and G.M.C. trucks, and it is a part of the Medical Department.
Our drill consists of three hours foot movements in the forenoon and three hours school in surgery, therapeutics, pharmacy and matera-medica in the afternoon. So you see we are kept busy most of the time.
Will say that I would be glad to hear from any of my old friends in the service, also any of my old schoolmates that care to drop me a few lines. I am as ever,
Your friend,
Sergt. Lillard T. Collins,
Amb. Co. 149, 38th Division,
113th Sanitary Train, Camp Shelby,
Hattiesburg, Miss.
NOTES: Collins was born on March 10, 1893 and died on October 16, 1951. He is buried in the Auman Cemetery in Boone County, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Indiana Sgt. serving in WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY DEBRA POLSTON