TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MENA WEEKLY STAR, DECEMBER 5, 1919 P 3
We started a drive and drove the Germans about twenty miles and then our Division was relieved. For two days we ate German bread made out of potatoes. The Germans had been in possession of the towns for four years. The French people kissed the hands of the Americans and threw away anything that was German. Just before we went to the front the Y.M.C.A. issued cigars, cigarettes and chocolate to the boys. Last night they woke us up and gave us chocolates and cakes. Everybody was as eager to get that as a kid on Christmas morning. The Knights of Columbus also gave stuff to the boys. The boys say that there will always be a warm place in their hearts for the Salvation Army that has sold and issued stuff to them. I was transferred from a field hospital to a first aid station.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Lieut Frank Anderson Norwood to his parents Hal L. and Kate Norwood of Mena. He was born on October 2, 1894 at Lockesburg, Sevier County, Arkansas and died on December 3, 1967 in Biloxi, Mississippi. He is buried in the Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock, Arkansas. He completed school at the University of Arkansas and at the University Medical School and was a 2nd Battalion Surgeon serving with the 130th infantry. He was described as being of medium height and slender with brown eyes and brown hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
We started a drive and drove the Germans about twenty miles and then our Division was relieved. For two days we ate German bread made out of potatoes. The Germans had been in possession of the towns for four years. The French people kissed the hands of the Americans and threw away anything that was German. Just before we went to the front the Y.M.C.A. issued cigars, cigarettes and chocolate to the boys. Last night they woke us up and gave us chocolates and cakes. Everybody was as eager to get that as a kid on Christmas morning. The Knights of Columbus also gave stuff to the boys. The boys say that there will always be a warm place in their hearts for the Salvation Army that has sold and issued stuff to them. I was transferred from a field hospital to a first aid station.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Lieut Frank Anderson Norwood to his parents Hal L. and Kate Norwood of Mena. He was born on October 2, 1894 at Lockesburg, Sevier County, Arkansas and died on December 3, 1967 in Biloxi, Mississippi. He is buried in the Roselawn Memorial Park in Little Rock, Arkansas. He completed school at the University of Arkansas and at the University Medical School and was a 2nd Battalion Surgeon serving with the 130th infantry. He was described as being of medium height and slender with brown eyes and brown hair.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT