TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MALVERN TIMES JOURNAL MARCH 14, 1918 P. 1
New York, March 8, 1918
Postmaster, Malvern, Arkansas
Dear Sir:
I want to thank you and the boys in the Postoffice for the tobacco you sent to me when I was in France. I am in New York City now awaiting a medical discharge after 6 months of foreign service, a good part of which time I spent in the hospital with the spinal miningitis, of which I have not recovered yet.
France is a nice country and I was well satisfied and asked the doctors not to send me back, but I had to come anyway. Guess I will be at home in a few days.
Horace E. Thompson
NOTES: Thompson was born on November 28, 1896 and died on August 11, 1982. He is buried in the Old Rosemont Cemetery in Benton, Arkansas. He served with the 10th Engineers. His military headstone identifies him as a Pfc.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
New York, March 8, 1918
Postmaster, Malvern, Arkansas
Dear Sir:
I want to thank you and the boys in the Postoffice for the tobacco you sent to me when I was in France. I am in New York City now awaiting a medical discharge after 6 months of foreign service, a good part of which time I spent in the hospital with the spinal miningitis, of which I have not recovered yet.
France is a nice country and I was well satisfied and asked the doctors not to send me back, but I had to come anyway. Guess I will be at home in a few days.
Horace E. Thompson
NOTES: Thompson was born on November 28, 1896 and died on August 11, 1982. He is buried in the Old Rosemont Cemetery in Benton, Arkansas. He served with the 10th Engineers. His military headstone identifies him as a Pfc.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON