Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1919-02-13

The Isle Of Wight naturally appealed to
ones curiosity, especially after seeing an
old castle back from the shore a little.
After it became sufficiently dark we set
out into the channel for another challenge
OF the submarine danger. We slept IN
all sorts OF piled up and consorted po-
sitions on the floor. Early the next
morning | heard the most welcome To-
connective whistle to which / have ever
listened; it assured us that we had sue
cessully run the last gauntlet, and were
safe IN the harbor Of La Harye, France
On that morning, June 26, II month
from the day cur train left Camp Funs-
ton, We landed in this French seaport.
We marched around the edge of the city
10 a rest camp. On Monday, the 2Sth,
we were loaded on box cars aud started
an our overland journey. Our car had
two flat wheels, but ! sleptvery well that
Friday night. Early Saturday morning
we sklrted around the edge OF Paris aud
about dark detrained at Ramoncourt. On
Sunday morning we marched about IS
kIlometers into our own Regimental area
near Grand, in the Department OF the
Vosges. Our regiment was billeted in
FIVE villages. But in a few days we we're
billeted at Trampot, where Regimental
Headquarters and Inirmary were locat-
ed. We spent the time until the first
week in August in this area"
Walter Pruitt, who has been in Base
Hospital 50, at LaHavre, France, since
the latter part of November, writes as
late rs January 20 that he is doing all
right now and that the doctor has let
him go up town several times. "The
nurses sure have treated me fine, and
| do not think l will ever forget them.
l do not think much OF the stuff they
call pneumonia and 1 think Thave had
nv share of it. The Red Gross sure
treated US fine. They gave us candy
and cigarettes. One fellow in the
room with me wss from Poplar Bluff,
and we just more than talked. [ was
sorry when he left"
Guy Miller, Supply Department, 339
T. a., arrived home last Thursday,
having received his honorable dis
charge at Camp Dodge. He came over
in the Rochambeau, a ship that had a
tussle with the rough seas. They We're
delayed two days at Halifax, but sail
ing from that place to New York was
fine. He said the 339 Field Artillery
came over in four different ships
Like the other boys, he was rejoicing
to be at home nee more
A telegram February 9th announced
the sale arrival of Corporal Louis r.
Miller. Bat. E,339, F. A., in New York.
In a letter which followed, be says:
"We had been in Bordeaux since ear
+ " in December, billeted for a while in
barns, farm housed, and treading
through mud shoe mouth deep. The
: climate there is very mild and it rains
instead of SHOWS. Finally we got into
good rest camps. What we fellows
4 would have done without the two
good Y. M. O AIS would be hard to
say. Drills after the armistice seemed
I very irksome. Finally they let US off
with three hours per day, then, at
last, substituted fatigue work for
Y drills, which suited all hands better
t They used different branches of us at
1 different times. Our fare was very
: inadequate, especially at st, Saturnin.
: We had a treat of fried steak Thanks
giving (there wasn't enough of it and
apples given by the Salvation Army
. Christmas. We also received our
r Christmas cartons. We lost more
e men from the flu than if we had been
in action at the front. I was very for
tunate, not being confined to the hos
pital more than a week. After sever
al weeks weary waiting to sail our
S Battery E, with headquarters, was or
: dered to Marseilles, France, where we
v took the Italian steamship, Daca d.
Aosta. We stopped at Gibraltar ono
day while the ship was coaling. We
+ we're aboard sixteen days; buffeting
E with rough seq and punk meals. We
arrived at New York February 9Th,
/ where we received a grand welcome.
d Our destination is Camp. Merritt, n.
j., where we we will remain for a
i, few days as they are breaking up our
battery. Here we get decent meals
once more. Went sight seeing in
e New York one day, the first pass
e have had since last July at Camp
Dodge. Let the fellows who want to
I stay in the army, stay. AS for me,
:, I am more than willing to exchange
!, the drills, the army life and France
q for home in the good old U. s. A.!
Look for ms SOON"
e Albert Akers from Fl. @, Co., Camp
Bowie, is on Through ana visiting his
+ folks at Pilot Knob.
a The following have been discharged:
Owen Fitzgerald, Ernest Fitzgerald,
Joe Nc Coll, Hubert Russell, Camp
Funston, Belleview.
Il Lloyd Stanley, $3.50 Supply Co SO
Division, Camp Dodge, Iowa, Belle
view.
le Don L. Payne, $3.50 Supply Co IS
IS Division, Camp Dodge, Iowa, Good
water.
d William w. Keathley, Co. H, 6t
Infantry, Camp Funston, Ironton.
w. j. Bryan Lane and Fred M. Ca
sey, each Co. D, 10th Regiment, Red
ford, Mo.