TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE JULY 28, 1918 P. 8
I don’t think that the subs will have any luck on a night attack; yet, nevertheless, they dropped a shell in Orleans, just 10 minutes’ ride on the surface car from here.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Ernest Leroy Lanier to his mother, Mrs. A. Lanier. He was writing about the possible submachine menace off the Massachusetts coast. He stated that the people of Boston were wild with fear. He was born on August 1890 in Southwest City Missouri and died on September 22, 1918 at the naval hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts of influenza. He was buried in the Southwest City Cemetery. His military headstone identifies him as a L E U S N R F. He was living in Bentonville, Arkansas by 1910 and his draft registration was filed in Bentonville. He was described as being tall and medium build with grey eyes and dark hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I don’t think that the subs will have any luck on a night attack; yet, nevertheless, they dropped a shell in Orleans, just 10 minutes’ ride on the surface car from here.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Ernest Leroy Lanier to his mother, Mrs. A. Lanier. He was writing about the possible submachine menace off the Massachusetts coast. He stated that the people of Boston were wild with fear. He was born on August 1890 in Southwest City Missouri and died on September 22, 1918 at the naval hospital in Chelsea, Massachusetts of influenza. He was buried in the Southwest City Cemetery. His military headstone identifies him as a L E U S N R F. He was living in Bentonville, Arkansas by 1910 and his draft registration was filed in Bentonville. He was described as being tall and medium build with grey eyes and dark hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT