TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT MARCH 20 1919 P. 1
France
Feb. 1 Chaumont
Dear Mother:
Not much doing. I am working nights, never later than 11:30. Expect to see Homer Snodgrass in a day or two. He is at G.H.Q. Spent yesterday with Secy. Erwin Funk here at the “Y”. He looks better than I ever saw him before. Fat, my goodness, the army sure agrees with him all right. He says they call him the tramp in the 26th Division because he is such a rustler and tramps all over the country getting supplies for his “Y”. He has been assigned to the 29th Division as Divisional Secretary and left today to take up his new duties. He tells me you were the last person he saw before he boarded the train for the north in September. I believe this was the last time he was home. I was surprised and never expected to see him over here. The “Y” would undoubtedly be a different organization if all the secretaries brot the Funk spirit.
A boy by the name of Frank Plank of Bentonville is also at the G.H.Q in the printing office. His father runs the two Bentonville papers. Might call his father up, tell him his son is in the best of health and all he wants is a discharge.
No mail past few days. Love to all.
ROSS
NOTES: Ross Hall was writing to his mother Emma Hall of Rogers, Arkansas. He was born on July 1, 1897 in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and died in Stockton, California on June 23, 1971. He is buried in the Stockton Rural Cemetery in Stockton. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Pfc serving in the Signal Corp. during World War 1. He departed New York, NY on July 7, 1918 onboard the Darro. He was serving as a Pvt. in Detachment 6 Field Signal Bn. 6 Division. He departed Brest, France on May 19, 1919 onboard the Saxonia and arrived in New York on May 30. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in 54 Seg. Signal Cps.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND
France
Feb. 1 Chaumont
Dear Mother:
Not much doing. I am working nights, never later than 11:30. Expect to see Homer Snodgrass in a day or two. He is at G.H.Q. Spent yesterday with Secy. Erwin Funk here at the “Y”. He looks better than I ever saw him before. Fat, my goodness, the army sure agrees with him all right. He says they call him the tramp in the 26th Division because he is such a rustler and tramps all over the country getting supplies for his “Y”. He has been assigned to the 29th Division as Divisional Secretary and left today to take up his new duties. He tells me you were the last person he saw before he boarded the train for the north in September. I believe this was the last time he was home. I was surprised and never expected to see him over here. The “Y” would undoubtedly be a different organization if all the secretaries brot the Funk spirit.
A boy by the name of Frank Plank of Bentonville is also at the G.H.Q in the printing office. His father runs the two Bentonville papers. Might call his father up, tell him his son is in the best of health and all he wants is a discharge.
No mail past few days. Love to all.
ROSS
NOTES: Ross Hall was writing to his mother Emma Hall of Rogers, Arkansas. He was born on July 1, 1897 in Pea Ridge, Arkansas and died in Stockton, California on June 23, 1971. He is buried in the Stockton Rural Cemetery in Stockton. His military headstone identifies him as a Arkansas Pfc serving in the Signal Corp. during World War 1. He departed New York, NY on July 7, 1918 onboard the Darro. He was serving as a Pvt. in Detachment 6 Field Signal Bn. 6 Division. He departed Brest, France on May 19, 1919 onboard the Saxonia and arrived in New York on May 30. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in 54 Seg. Signal Cps.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND