TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE SEPTEMBER 13, 1918 P. 2
Camp Dodge, 1a, Aug. 25, 1918.
Dear father and mother:
Will write you a few lines. This leaves me just fine and I hope this will find you all the same. Well, I have been in Camp almost two months and I like soldier life fine. I have had one twenty four hour pass and I have also had all my innoculation. I had two of them in the back, one in the right arm and two vaccinations in the left arm. The two shots in the back hurt very bad but the rest of them were easy.
We have about fifty thousand in our camps. The eighth division left for over seas and we got news they landed safe. My name is on the list for guard duty tonight. There are about sixty or seventy go on guard from this barrack every other night. I will tell you what we have to do while we are on guard. We are all numbered and the guard posts are numbered and whatever number I am, if the number is twenty, that is where I walk and guard two hours and am off four. We go on at five thirty and get off at the same time the next day.
The camp is twelve miles from Des Moines, Iowa.
Well, as it is almost time for supper will close, hoping to hear from you soon.
Your son,
Bert Delozier.
Co. 14, 4th Bri., 163 Depot Reg.
NOTES: Bert Aron De Lozier was born at Green Forest, Arkansas on January 8, 1895 and died at Woodbine, Iowa on April 23, 1939. He is buried in the Woodbine Cemetery in Woodbine. His military headstone identifies him as a Iowa Private serving in the Coast Guard Artillery Corps. His gravestone application shows that he last served with the 15th and 2nd Company, Coastal Defenses at Ft. Barrancas, Pensacola, Florida.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Camp Dodge, 1a, Aug. 25, 1918.
Dear father and mother:
Will write you a few lines. This leaves me just fine and I hope this will find you all the same. Well, I have been in Camp almost two months and I like soldier life fine. I have had one twenty four hour pass and I have also had all my innoculation. I had two of them in the back, one in the right arm and two vaccinations in the left arm. The two shots in the back hurt very bad but the rest of them were easy.
We have about fifty thousand in our camps. The eighth division left for over seas and we got news they landed safe. My name is on the list for guard duty tonight. There are about sixty or seventy go on guard from this barrack every other night. I will tell you what we have to do while we are on guard. We are all numbered and the guard posts are numbered and whatever number I am, if the number is twenty, that is where I walk and guard two hours and am off four. We go on at five thirty and get off at the same time the next day.
The camp is twelve miles from Des Moines, Iowa.
Well, as it is almost time for supper will close, hoping to hear from you soon.
Your son,
Bert Delozier.
Co. 14, 4th Bri., 163 Depot Reg.
NOTES: Bert Aron De Lozier was born at Green Forest, Arkansas on January 8, 1895 and died at Woodbine, Iowa on April 23, 1939. He is buried in the Woodbine Cemetery in Woodbine. His military headstone identifies him as a Iowa Private serving in the Coast Guard Artillery Corps. His gravestone application shows that he last served with the 15th and 2nd Company, Coastal Defenses at Ft. Barrancas, Pensacola, Florida.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON