TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT JANUARY 15, 1919 P. 3
We are living in rooms wherever the boys can find one to suit them and answering calls from a centrally located headquarters.
I am still alive but feel the effects of the flu yet and presume that I will for some time; we left the hospital about November 6 and have been traveling all over England and France from one rest camp to another. Nothing to do here but hang around and wait for orders from home which we hope will come in soon. The war stopped about a week before our battery was due at the front.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Linn B. Harrod to Earl D. Kidder of Little Rock, Arkansas. He served as a Wagoner with the 309th Trench Mortar Battery. He was born on April 5, 1889, in Arkansas. He spent his early life in Faulkner county before moving to Little Rock. He died October 28, 1928 in a military hospital in Burbank, California. He is buried in the Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale, California. During the war he contracted influenza on the trip over and later developed tuberculosis.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
We are living in rooms wherever the boys can find one to suit them and answering calls from a centrally located headquarters.
I am still alive but feel the effects of the flu yet and presume that I will for some time; we left the hospital about November 6 and have been traveling all over England and France from one rest camp to another. Nothing to do here but hang around and wait for orders from home which we hope will come in soon. The war stopped about a week before our battery was due at the front.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Linn B. Harrod to Earl D. Kidder of Little Rock, Arkansas. He served as a Wagoner with the 309th Trench Mortar Battery. He was born on April 5, 1889, in Arkansas. He spent his early life in Faulkner county before moving to Little Rock. He died October 28, 1928 in a military hospital in Burbank, California. He is buried in the Grandview Memorial Park in Glendale, California. During the war he contracted influenza on the trip over and later developed tuberculosis.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT