TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS NOVEMBER 22, 1918 P.3
October, 14 1918.
Dear Mother, Sisters and Brothers:
Will try and write a few lines tonight before going to work, I work at night. It is awful damp here, it rains a great deal and is getting cool. It is a hard job to keep warm at times. I am staying well and hope to continue so. We can buy grapes from the Frenchman but can’t get any candy. About all the Red Cross has here at the canteen is tobacco, so we can get all we want of that. Well I think we won’t have to stay here long the way the Kaiser is talking now.
Love and best wishes,
Walter J. Dobbs.
Base Hospital 70 A.P.O. 785. A.E.F.
NOTES: Walter James Dobbs was writing to his mother Mrs. Kate Dobbs who lived near Springdale, Arkansas. He was born in Elm Springs, Arkansas on June 23, 1889 and died in Bentonville, Arkansas on July 15, 1971. He is buried in the Elm Springs Cemetery. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Pfc. serving with Base Hospital 70 in WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
October, 14 1918.
Dear Mother, Sisters and Brothers:
Will try and write a few lines tonight before going to work, I work at night. It is awful damp here, it rains a great deal and is getting cool. It is a hard job to keep warm at times. I am staying well and hope to continue so. We can buy grapes from the Frenchman but can’t get any candy. About all the Red Cross has here at the canteen is tobacco, so we can get all we want of that. Well I think we won’t have to stay here long the way the Kaiser is talking now.
Love and best wishes,
Walter J. Dobbs.
Base Hospital 70 A.P.O. 785. A.E.F.
NOTES: Walter James Dobbs was writing to his mother Mrs. Kate Dobbs who lived near Springdale, Arkansas. He was born in Elm Springs, Arkansas on June 23, 1889 and died in Bentonville, Arkansas on July 15, 1971. He is buried in the Elm Springs Cemetery. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Pfc. serving with Base Hospital 70 in WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY