Part 3

Roll of Honor

¦_Killed in action_ +_Died of disease_ *_Photo_

ADCOCK, COY *AIKENS, THOMAS *AVERY, CURTIS *AVERY, HERBERT

*BAKER, JOHN J. *BARNES, D. H. *BARNES, J. C. ¦BEARD, A. E. *BLACKWELDER, FLOYD *BOWLES, J. T. ¦*BRIDGES, JIM

*CANADY, HOYT A. *CARMACK, JOHN *CHAMPION, LIGE *COLE, CLAUDIUS H. *CONNELL, MARION L. *CONWAY, CLIFFORD *CONWAY, J. W. *COTTLE, GEORGE *COULTER, ROY D. CROWDER, LEE

¦DABBS, H. L. *DAVIS, J. S. DELOACH, BIRDIE E. DELOACH, O. D.

*EDGE, J. S. *ELLOIT, HOMER H.

*FLING, H. S. *FOSTER, KENON FOSTER, RUFUS M.

GARRETT, CARL

HESTLEY, DAN M. *HOLLIS, G. W. *HOLLIS, J. F. *HOWELL, REUBEN *HUFF, CLYDE *HUGHEY, T. F. HUMPHREY, JEWELL

*JAMES, T. B. *JARRELL, J. M. *JARRELL, WALTER *JOHNSON, ALDOLPHUS *JONES, BURL D. *JONES, ROBT. L.

*KEEL, HIRAM H. *KEMP, GEORGE KENNINGTON, GRADY KENNINGTON, JAKE

*LACKEY, MAC *LANIER, T. B. *LAWHORNE, C. M. LINDSEY, O. L. *LYONS, J. C.

*MANGRUM, WILFORD ¦*MANGRUM, WM. P. MANLEY, BERNARD *MILAM, RANCE MURPHY, N. B. *MCCARLEY, W. F.

*NEWMAN, OTIS B.

*PHILLIPS, DENSON *PITTS, FRANK *PRATT, HORACE L. *PRITCHARD, HAROLD

*RUFF, LEE

*SEWELL, J. C. SHARPE, A. E. *SHARPE, J. R. *SIMMS, A. T. *SLEDGE, J. S. *SMITH, ALVA *SMITH, A. C. *SMITH, COOPER SMITH, ELISH SMITH, ERNEST *SMITH, PAUL W. SMITH, JOHN WILL *SPIVEY, E. L. SPIVEY, FORREST *STEPHENS, J. H. *STILL, T. H.

TAUNTON, JESSE TAYLOR, C. Z. *TERRELL, C. T. ¦*THOMAS, BENNIE *TYSON, THOMAS

*WALLACE, JOHN T. *WARREN, SAM *WARREN, W. L. *WATERS, CLINTON *WATERS, KYLE *WATKINS, ROY W. ¦*WHATLEY, JOHN D. *WHITE, FLOYD *WHITE, JOHN D. *WHITLOW, OLIN *WORD, JOE

Colored

BOYD, CHARLIE BOYD, OCIE BROOKS, AMOS BROOKS, JESSIE BROOKS, WILLIE LEE

CHAMBERS, JOHN COOPER, JEFF COPELAND, GEORGE

GIBSON, B. C.

¦HAFFNER, RICHARD

LITTLEFIELD, B. K.

MASON, JOHN MITTS, JOHN

OLIVER, WESLEY

REESE, JOHN T.

Extracts of Appreciation

"The people here are different from any other section of France. Their customs and dress are very peculiar, in fact, reminds me very much of the people of Holland. They wear wooden shoes and have a dialect all their own. French people from the more up-to-date parts of France have difficulty in speaking to and understanding them. The country is flat and marshy, and windmills like those of Holland can be seen. It is very pleasant in summer but in the winter I think it must be very cold, for already it is getting very cold at night and in the morning. I do not think we will be here long, though I do not know where we will go from here. Perhaps where the big guns roar and the bombs drop from the skies. Well, we have been anxious to go up front, and no doubt our chance will come some day. We have been doing some mighty important work back here in the S. O. S. but it is the nature of an American to want to be where the excitement is thickest."

J. F. H.

October 8, 1918

"This helmet was picked up on the morning of October 16th as we were returning to the rear from a convoy in the heart of the Argonne, near the village of Cheppy. The wearer who had fallen earlier in the day was an old soldier perhaps sixty-five years old and belonged to the 419th Division of the Saxon Bombardiers. More than a hundred German and American Troops lay dead within sight.

"The probable cause of his death was high explosive, as he was torn up very badly.

"In an area of two square miles many hundred of these could have been gathered. I took an interest in this one on account of its high polish for camouflage purposes, something new to us at that time."

A. C. S.

"We spent quite a different life from this in the English waters where we put in many monotonous months waiting for the Hun to come out. We were sorry he came out the way he did for we were just aching to exchange broadsides with him.

"My ship convoyed one-half million troops through what is called the 'Submarines' Graveyard,' off the coast of Ireland, during the months of September and October."

W. W.

January 1, 1919

"The boys in the outfit I belong to were the first to cross the Meuse River and were in the first lines when the guns stopped firing at 11 o'clock on the 11th day on the 11th month in the year 1918."

J. T. W.

December 21, 1918

"I now belong to the Army of Occupation. We are going through what is to my thinking the prettiest country yet. My battery has hiked some four hundred and twenty-five kilometers since we fired our last barrage--and believe me, that was some barrage--'The Million Dollar One'. It will take a long time before I forget it. I stood on a hill and watched and listened. IT WAS GREAT. I guess about ten or twelve regiments of the American Artillery and I don't know how many of the French took part. The best of old Heinie's guns were being used. If he knew the sound of them as well as we did, he knew that we were firing his OWN guns at him. They have a very peculiar and creepy sound, see?"

G. F. K.

December 4, 1918

"I had the pictures struck yesterday. And to show you how much speed there is here in France--for this is an instance of real speed--

"The guy who runs the shop pounded me on the back and said, 'Bon, bon-apres un mayr photo finie'. Anybody that has to put up with that kind of lingo and fight this war has sure got some job. Well, after tearing out about all of my hair and using three different Franco-American dictionaries I finally managed to get this out of the scraps, 'Good, good, after one month, picture finished'.

"Remember that was only yesterday."

C. H.

October 25, 1918

"If this letter reaches you safely you can say it came through from the infernal regions, for if there was ever a 'Hell's Half Acre' this must be it. Put your finger on the biggest forest in France and say I'm there. Six weeks like a rat, three of which is like a whirlwind sweeping through Hades day or night, no rest, but forever watching, waiting, working by candle light deep down in a dug-out, or no light at all. This certainly cannot last much longer. It does us good to know there is one place where everything is like it used to be. I certainly am glad SHAWMUT is still natural and hope someday soon to get back there and take up my work where I left off."

A. C. S.

"I wish to express my sincere appreciation of the personal letter service which has been rendered me. It is the wonderful and unselfish spirit of the folks back home, which has made the men of the A. E. F. willing and eager to 'carry on'."

J. S. D.

December 22, 1918

"I was sitting on my bunk trying to write these few lines, when my bunkie jumped up all at once and said a few words (I can't tell you what he said). At first I thought that he was shot but I found out what the trouble was, only a 'cootie bite'."

D. H. B.

September 23, 1918

"If there is one thing that stands out preeminently in a soldier's daily schedule across the sea, as to helpfulness it is 'that letter' or little bit of news from home (America). If you good people who are carrying on the work of the 'Home Guards' could see the eager faces of the Yanks at mail time, as they congregate for mail distributions, I am sure you would agree that time spent in writing to 'Over There' boys, is at least appreciated to the fullest."

J. H. S.

September 22, 1918

"I appreciate having my name on the list at the War Service Station very much. I enjoy the Bulletin from the first to the last and hope I'll never miss one as long as the war lasts."

H. A.

October 6, 1918

"I was indeed surprised, a few days since, to receive a letter from you good people of my old home town reminding me that you still remember me and appreciate the effort that we boys are making to do our 'bit' for the just and righteous cause in which we are all enlisted.

"Your promise to write us from time to time of the items of interest at home especially gratifying, for local news nowadays, possesses far more interest and diversion for us than does the doings and happenings of the remainder of the 'great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world'."

C. T. T.

July 10, 1918

"It makes one feel good to know that he is remembered back home, not only by his parents, but by his friends as well. You don't know, you can't know, just how much good you are doing and just how it makes us feel when stationed at a remote camp, where we know no one, to get a letter from friends at home, who are interested in us. It makes us feel as though nothing on earth could prevent us from winning this war--and _we shall win_."

R. D. C.

June 21, 1918

"We leave this port the tenth of December and proceed nine hundred miles off this coast and meet President Wilson and his party, who are coming over to the Peace Conference on the George Washington, convoyed by the super-dreadnaught, Pennsylvania, and six destroyers.

"There are nine big dreadnaughts in our fleet lying here who will go out and convoy them to Brest, France."

W. L. W.

December 8, 1918

Committees

Y. M. C. A. DRIVE

Subscription, $338.35

RED CROSS CHRISTMAS MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

EDWARDS, J. R. MURPHY, G. W. WHITEHEAD, J. L.

Subscription, $100.00

RED CROSS WAR FUND DRIVE

BUGG, MRS. EDWARDS, J. R. WAGNON, MRS. WHITEHEAD, J. L.

Subscription, $1,186.00

RED CROSS CHRISTMAS ROLL CALL

BUGG, MRS. M. M. JONES, T. T. KEMP, MRS. F. S.

Subscription, $150.00

UNITED WAR FUND DRIVE

COLE, LOYD CROWDER, J. J. CROWDER, WALT HERRING, DR. HOLLIS, J. T. JOHNSON, E. J. JONES, T. T. KEMP, F. S. MURPHY, G. W. PRITCHARD, MRS. P. SINGLETERRY, C. A. UNDERWOOD, W. L. WAGNON, G. C. WALLS, J. S.

Subscription, $1,944.10

ARMENIAN RELIEF FUND

Subscription, $101.50

SALVATION ARMY DRIVE

Subscription, $100.70

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN

JONES, T. T. MURPHY, G. W. MURPHY, O. G. SINGLETERRY, C. A. WAGNON, G. C.

Subscription, $1,750.00

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN

CROWDER, J. J. EDWARDS, J. R. HOLLIS, J. T. JOHNSON, E. J. JONES, T. T. KEMP, F. S. KEMP, MISS GRACE MURPHY, G. W. MURPHY, O. G. SINGLETERRY, C. A. WAGNON, G. C. WALLS, J. S. UNDERWOOD, W. L.

Subscription, $24,350.00

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

CROWDER, J. J. EDWARDS, J. R. HOLLIS, J. T. JOHNSON, E. J. JONES, MRS. T. T. JONES, T. T. KEMP, F. S. MURPHY, G. W. MURPHY, O. G. PRITCHARD, DR. P. SINGLETERRY, C. A. UNDERWOOD, W. L. WAGNON, G. C. WALLS, J. S. WHITEHEAD, J. W.

Subscription, $25,200.00

VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN

Subscription, $10,500.00

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

Subscription, $10,500.00

Total

Liberty and Victory Loans $61,800.00 War Saving Stamps 10,500.00 United War Fund 1,944.10 Membership and Subscription Red Cross 1,436.00 Y. M. C. A. 338.35 Salvation Army 100.70 Armenian Relief 101.50

Committee Report

Number of boys who left for Service from Shawmut 111 Number of colored boys 14 Number of boys discharged before War Service Station started 5 Number of boys whose address was unlocated 10 ---- 29

Number of boys on writing list 82 Number of boys who died in Service 7 Number of boys known to be wounded 20 Number of boys who have written to War Service Station 61 Number of visitors to Station 2950 Number of letters sent to boys in Service 1267 Number of other letters mailed 464 Number of Bulletins mailed 1650 Number of packages forwarded 125 Number of letters received from boys in Service 283 Number of pieces of mail sent out from War Service Station 3188

From Shawmut Red Cross

T bandages 91 Bed shirts 48 Triangular bandages 103 Abdominal bandages 79 Sweaters 116 Sox, pairs 11 Refugee aprons 20 Helpless case shirts 12 Pajamas, pairs 20 Refugee dresses 10 Comfort bags 5 Refugee shirts 5 Convalescent robes 10 Garments to Belgian and French refugees 482 Towels in shower 125 Influenza masks for influenza epidemic 1000 Garments in Christmas box 160 Inspection of boys' Christmas boxes.

Junior Red Cross

Collected 1917-1918 $60.00 Collected 1918-1919 50.00 Sweaters 6 Hospital blanket 1 Sox, pairs 15 Utility bags 10 Monthly hospital booklets.

_Langdale_

Roll of Honor

+_Died of disease_ ¦_Killed in action_

ALLEN, GRADY

BAILEY, CHARLES BAILEY, WILLIAM F. BASSETT, BRYANT BATES, HUGH S. BATES, JAMES ARTHUR BLACKWELL, WALTER BLANKS, WILLIAM A. ¦BOHANNON, J. MEM +BOHANNON, WALTER T. BOON, GRADY BRANNON, HENRY J. BRITTINGHAM, DOUGLAS

CANADY, POET CARLISLE, ALSBERRY CARRIKER, JOHNNIE E. CRAWFORD, EDDIE L. CRAWFORD, ROBERT R. CRENSHAW, AMOS M. CRENSHAW, J. BEN CROWDER, OTIS CULBERSON, ROY

DANIEL, EUGENE R. DELOACH, OCIE LEE

EARLES, RICHMOND EARLES, SCHUSLER

FOBUS, JOSEPH ADIE FOSTER, RUFUS M. FOSTER, WALTER LEE FRAZIER, LUTHER FULLER, W. A.

GLASS, JESSEE L. GRAY, KEENER

HORNSBY, AUSTIN M.

JAMES, RONALD E. ¦JOHNSON, JAMES LEE JOHNSON, OLIN JOSEPH, ELLIS

KENT, OSCAR W.

LANDRETH, THOMAS LANEY, OCIE ¦LAUDERDALE, S. H.

MANNING, WILLIAM C. MOON, EULOS MORRIS, CLARENCE MCCLENDON, HOMER MCDONALD, SAM MCGARR, BENJAMIN F.

NEWTON, JAMES M.

O'NEAL, WILL ORRICK, AMOS

¦PERRYMAN, FRED

ROBERTS, ANDREW

SHELNUT, LUTHER SMITH, CHARLES M. SMITH, DOUGLAS M. SMITH, WALTER LEE ¦STANFIELD, CHARLIE D. STEPHENS, ALBERT E.

TANKERSLEY, GEORGE F. THOMPSON, ZACHARY THREADGILL, J. O. TYSON, FRED

WALLER, ELLIS WESSON, LUKE WHATLEY, WALTER H. WILLIAMS, JOHNNIE

YOUNG, TOMMY

Colored

BROOKS, JESS FINLEY, ALTON ISON, GUSS TAYLOR, GUY TAYLOR, MANUAL WINSTON, FRANK

Extracts of Appreciation

"I appreciate all the letters which you have written to me and it certainly livens a fellow up and makes him feel good to receive all the news from home and know just what is being done."

"I am proud to be represented in the service flag."

"Am glad to hear from you and to know that you are doing such wonderful work for the boys."

"Thanking you all for the joy that comes with your ever welcome letters."

"I want you to tell your fellow members in the War Service Station that as a man in the service I can heartily appreciate the work you are doing for the benefit of the men in the service and I think it is a splendid thing."

"Please accept my sincere thanks for all the letters, magazines and other things you have sent."

"Thanking you for remembering me and wishing you much success with your work."

"Am sure this system will prove a success as the boys will all appreciate the work of the Service Station."

"I am grateful to you and proud of our War Service Station."

"I am sure the good work that the Langdale War Service Station is doing for the boys in the service is very much appreciated. No one has an idea what it means until they are in the Service and are remembered as we are by the Service Station."

"Can assure you that your letters and all good work is more than appreciated."

"My best wishes for a prosperous Station, but then how could it be otherwise when it is for the good of Democracy and especially for the Liberty of these dear old 'United States'."

"I am not going to try to thank you for all the good news and letters I received when I reached port, this time. It was just grand."

"If you could visit this place once, my dear friends, you would know what a good place the U. S. A. is. Everything is out of date, even the women are all curious looking."

"It may be six or eight months before I get back to dear old Langdale. Of course it seems very hard to stay, but if my country needs me I am willing."

Committees

Subscriptions to First Liberty Loan were through the bank and we have no record of them.

SECOND LIBERTY LOAN

Subscription, $5,000.00

THIRD LIBERTY LOAN

L. LANIER, _V.-Chairman of Chambers Co._ W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman of Langdale_

Subscription, $40,600.00

FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

L. LANIER, _V.-Chairman of Chambers Co._ CARL. M. MOORE, _Chairman of Langdale_

Subscription, $14,900.00

UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN

A. C. BOYD, _Chairman of Langdale_

Subscription, $1,797.75

Y. M. C. A.

Subscription, $625.00

VICTORY LOAN CAMPAIGN

W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman_

Subscription, $10,100.00

FIRST RED CROSS WAR FUND

W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman of Langdale_

Subscription, $2,353.02

SECOND RED CROSS WAR FUND

L. LANIER, _Chairman of Chambers Co._ W. H. ENLOE, _Chairman of Langdale_

Subscription, $2,390.03

WAR SAVINGS STAMPS

A. C. BOYD, _Chairman of Chambers Co._ GEO. T. JOHNSON, _Chairman of Langdale_

Subscription, $32,000.00

LANGDALE CHAPTER RED CROSS

MRS. L. LANIER, _Chairman_

FOUR-MINUTE-MEN

CARL M. MOORE, _Chairman_ A. C. BOYD W. H. ENLOE W. L. CLARK W. T. DRAPER

SALVATION ARMY DRIVE

CARL MOORE, _Chairman_

Subscription, $160.00

Total