TRANSCRIBED FROM THE FAYETTEVILLE DAILY DEMOCRAT MARCH 6, 1919 P. 4
La Valdehon, France, February 2, 1919.
Ours has been made a permanent assignment here, and we expect to be her ‘til July and possibly longer. We start firing this week in connection with the school work, for a class of officers who have just come. This course is for three weeks, and there are seven classes scheduled for the course. So you see we are good for twenty-one weeks at least, according to present “dope,” and on top of that comes the test, which has no time limit, and which may take one week, one month, or several.
As I have often told you, it is useless to calculate anything in advance in the army, for orders are issued, countermanded, and reissued so quickly that no one can tell today what may happen tomorrow.
The two battalion of our regiment left at Coetquidan, have received orders to prepare to leave for the States, and are now making haste with preparations, though it may be two months before they are really on the water, for there is a fearful amount of “red tape” to be gone through before embarkation.
Lieutenant Hooper of Fayetteville is with one of these battalions, so will beat me home unless something very unexpected should happen.
We are still having ideal winter weather here, and every one is in the best of health.
As I told you before, this is the best port in France, and we are the envy of all troops at being so lucky as to get here.
Ours has been a most pleasant time here and I know of no other place I had rather be, if we are to stay on this side any length of time. I’m afraid I’m really going to hate to leave when the times comes.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Lieutenant Grover Cleveland George to his father J. B. George. He was born in Brightwater, Arkansas on March 28, 1893 and died on October 30, 1955. He is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas 1st Lieut. serving in the 142 FA in World War 1. He departed Hoboken, NJ on August 32, 1918 onboard the Leviathan. He was serving as a 1st Lieut. in the 142 FA.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
La Valdehon, France, February 2, 1919.
Ours has been made a permanent assignment here, and we expect to be her ‘til July and possibly longer. We start firing this week in connection with the school work, for a class of officers who have just come. This course is for three weeks, and there are seven classes scheduled for the course. So you see we are good for twenty-one weeks at least, according to present “dope,” and on top of that comes the test, which has no time limit, and which may take one week, one month, or several.
As I have often told you, it is useless to calculate anything in advance in the army, for orders are issued, countermanded, and reissued so quickly that no one can tell today what may happen tomorrow.
The two battalion of our regiment left at Coetquidan, have received orders to prepare to leave for the States, and are now making haste with preparations, though it may be two months before they are really on the water, for there is a fearful amount of “red tape” to be gone through before embarkation.
Lieutenant Hooper of Fayetteville is with one of these battalions, so will beat me home unless something very unexpected should happen.
We are still having ideal winter weather here, and every one is in the best of health.
As I told you before, this is the best port in France, and we are the envy of all troops at being so lucky as to get here.
Ours has been a most pleasant time here and I know of no other place I had rather be, if we are to stay on this side any length of time. I’m afraid I’m really going to hate to leave when the times comes.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Lieutenant Grover Cleveland George to his father J. B. George. He was born in Brightwater, Arkansas on March 28, 1893 and died on October 30, 1955. He is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Fayetteville, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas 1st Lieut. serving in the 142 FA in World War 1. He departed Hoboken, NJ on August 32, 1918 onboard the Leviathan. He was serving as a 1st Lieut. in the 142 FA.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT