TRANSCRIBED FROM THE WEEKLY SOLIPHONE AUGUST 22, 1918 P. 7
“I will write you a letter to let you know about myself. I wrote you on the 12th but since then I have been at the front. On the 20th of July a shell hit too close to me, so now I have a slight wound in my left shoulder, but do not yet feel that the Dutchman has anything on me.
“I am still with one of the old Company L, Camp Pike men, with whom I came over. He accompanied me to the hospital. We will both be out soon.
“We sure do get good treatment. I did not know that the Y.M.C.A. is so great until I came to this hospital. They have given us candy, cigarettes and other things.
“Howard Tarrant,
“Co, H 16 Inf. Amex. E. F. France.”
NOTES: Tarrant is writing this letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tarrant of Paragould. Tarrant was the first Greene County soldier to be wounded in the war. He was slightly wounded in the left shoulder by a German shell on July 20. He was twenty-two years old. He was sent to Camp Pike on September 20, 1917 for his initial training. He died on August 13, 1986 and is buried in Browns Chapel Cemetery in Paragould.
TRANSCRIBED BY JORDAN HOLYFIELD
“I will write you a letter to let you know about myself. I wrote you on the 12th but since then I have been at the front. On the 20th of July a shell hit too close to me, so now I have a slight wound in my left shoulder, but do not yet feel that the Dutchman has anything on me.
“I am still with one of the old Company L, Camp Pike men, with whom I came over. He accompanied me to the hospital. We will both be out soon.
“We sure do get good treatment. I did not know that the Y.M.C.A. is so great until I came to this hospital. They have given us candy, cigarettes and other things.
“Howard Tarrant,
“Co, H 16 Inf. Amex. E. F. France.”
NOTES: Tarrant is writing this letter to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Tarrant of Paragould. Tarrant was the first Greene County soldier to be wounded in the war. He was slightly wounded in the left shoulder by a German shell on July 20. He was twenty-two years old. He was sent to Camp Pike on September 20, 1917 for his initial training. He died on August 13, 1986 and is buried in Browns Chapel Cemetery in Paragould.
TRANSCRIBED BY JORDAN HOLYFIELD