TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BENTON COURIER NOVEMBER 29, 1917
Health is very good at this camp with the exception of a few cases of measles and a few cases of meningitis. (MISSING PART OF TEXT)
ways than I do down here. The water down here is not as good and it is so dusty. This is a real pretty camp, but we had rather be at Camp Pike. We are in the army now and are satisfied any where Uncle Sammy says go, but we long to see the day when the kaiser is whipped and we can return home to greet our many friends.
We arrived here last Thursday, a week ago, and were quarantined as soon as we got here and cannot go any place except around the camp. We have not done anything much since we have been here, but we will have to do something later on. When a man gets into the army and thinks he won’t have anything to do, he is mistaken. We were drafted in the army and we can’t get out. All we can have is “squad right about.” Any way we have a good bunch of boys here. We have never had a fight in the company and that is pretty good for a bunch like this not to have a little fight.
Well it is time for mess; we will go and finish this later. Good-bye, old friends.
Well, we have finished our dinner and of course we are feeling better.
This is a beautiful afternoon, and how nice it would be if we could be in old Arkansas this evening.
Shorty and I want to take a stroll around the camp, so we will close and try to do better next time. We hope to see you all Christmas.
Privates,
Private Walter Fuller,
Private Roy Evans.
NOTES: Walter Monroe Fuller was born in Arkansas on May 13, 1895 and died on April 15, 1978. He is buried in the Pipkin Cemetery in Salem, Arkansas in Saline County. His military headstone identifies him as a Wagr. Serving in the Us Army in WWI. He enlisted on September 18, 1917 and was discharged on May 21, 1919.
Roy Evans was born on March 2, 1900 at South Fork, Arkansas in Fulton County. He died on June 20, 1956. He is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Health is very good at this camp with the exception of a few cases of measles and a few cases of meningitis. (MISSING PART OF TEXT)
ways than I do down here. The water down here is not as good and it is so dusty. This is a real pretty camp, but we had rather be at Camp Pike. We are in the army now and are satisfied any where Uncle Sammy says go, but we long to see the day when the kaiser is whipped and we can return home to greet our many friends.
We arrived here last Thursday, a week ago, and were quarantined as soon as we got here and cannot go any place except around the camp. We have not done anything much since we have been here, but we will have to do something later on. When a man gets into the army and thinks he won’t have anything to do, he is mistaken. We were drafted in the army and we can’t get out. All we can have is “squad right about.” Any way we have a good bunch of boys here. We have never had a fight in the company and that is pretty good for a bunch like this not to have a little fight.
Well it is time for mess; we will go and finish this later. Good-bye, old friends.
Well, we have finished our dinner and of course we are feeling better.
This is a beautiful afternoon, and how nice it would be if we could be in old Arkansas this evening.
Shorty and I want to take a stroll around the camp, so we will close and try to do better next time. We hope to see you all Christmas.
Privates,
Private Walter Fuller,
Private Roy Evans.
NOTES: Walter Monroe Fuller was born in Arkansas on May 13, 1895 and died on April 15, 1978. He is buried in the Pipkin Cemetery in Salem, Arkansas in Saline County. His military headstone identifies him as a Wagr. Serving in the Us Army in WWI. He enlisted on September 18, 1917 and was discharged on May 21, 1919.
Roy Evans was born on March 2, 1900 at South Fork, Arkansas in Fulton County. He died on June 20, 1956. He is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS