TRANSCRIBED FROM THE EUREKA SPRINGS FLASHLIGHT JUNE 6, 1918 P. 1
Camp Fremont, Cal.,
May 26, 1918.
Editor Flashlight
We are only getting sixteen hours instruction a day and need something to do to use the other eight hours, besides sleep, so I will take it out on the editor of the home paper.
Camp Fremont, thirty-five miles from San Francisco, is a very nice camp in every way.
We are receiving that intensive training which is necessary to make an efficient army, and if we get a chance — well, I would not want to be a German, that’s all.
I am sending you a few pictures of some American soldiers with their gas masks on. These masks are the most comfortable mask in use by any army, and yet, after drilling for a while with them, anyone of us feels like taking a division of Germans single handed.
I have been in Camp Fremont since May 15 and will be here until September 1.
This is a wonderful climate and a nice country, but the old saying still holds good, “There’s no place like home.” If, by any chance, these pictures get in the Flashlight, the people at home can see that we are well protected from gas.
The other is of the winning squad of the Machine Gun Co., 21st U. S. Infantry, in machine gun maneuvers, known as the Fighting Second Squad.
I hear a very important call being blown just now — mess ____ _____time is well taken up by the present.
Sincerely,
ELMER C. HULL,
First Company, Fourth Officer Training camp.
Camp Fremont, Cal.
NOTES: Elmer Clarence Hull was born in Eureka Springs, Arkansas on November 2, 1895 and died in Asheboro, NC on September 1, 1985. He was cremated but has a burial site at the Baxter Memorial Gardens in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He enlisted into the military on May 7, 1917 and was discharged on January 7, 1919. He was a 2nd Lieut. In the infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Camp Fremont, Cal.,
May 26, 1918.
Editor Flashlight
We are only getting sixteen hours instruction a day and need something to do to use the other eight hours, besides sleep, so I will take it out on the editor of the home paper.
Camp Fremont, thirty-five miles from San Francisco, is a very nice camp in every way.
We are receiving that intensive training which is necessary to make an efficient army, and if we get a chance — well, I would not want to be a German, that’s all.
I am sending you a few pictures of some American soldiers with their gas masks on. These masks are the most comfortable mask in use by any army, and yet, after drilling for a while with them, anyone of us feels like taking a division of Germans single handed.
I have been in Camp Fremont since May 15 and will be here until September 1.
This is a wonderful climate and a nice country, but the old saying still holds good, “There’s no place like home.” If, by any chance, these pictures get in the Flashlight, the people at home can see that we are well protected from gas.
The other is of the winning squad of the Machine Gun Co., 21st U. S. Infantry, in machine gun maneuvers, known as the Fighting Second Squad.
I hear a very important call being blown just now — mess ____ _____time is well taken up by the present.
Sincerely,
ELMER C. HULL,
First Company, Fourth Officer Training camp.
Camp Fremont, Cal.
NOTES: Elmer Clarence Hull was born in Eureka Springs, Arkansas on November 2, 1895 and died in Asheboro, NC on September 1, 1985. He was cremated but has a burial site at the Baxter Memorial Gardens in Mountain Home, Arkansas. He enlisted into the military on May 7, 1917 and was discharged on January 7, 1919. He was a 2nd Lieut. In the infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS