Lanett

Corp. Joe F. Adams Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. George Alexander Company E 167th Infantry Pvt. Loyd Allen Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Will T. Anderson Company C 106th Am. Train

Pvt. Clyde Andrews Company B 3d Infantry Pvt. Chas. H. Barnett Battery C 6th Field Artillery Corp. Harry Bachelor Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Claude Barnett Bakery Co. 357

Sailor George Bankston U.S.S. Rhode Island Pvt. Jesse Berry Company C 106th Am. Train Pvt. Earl Beal Battery F 53d Artillery C.A.C. Pvt. Edgar Blakely Medical Corps

Sgt. James Blackmon 19th Division Supply Train Corp. Mark B. Blackmon Company C 106th Am. Train Pvt. Willie H. Brewer Company G 2d Training Reg. Pvt. Earnest G. Brewster Company 39 157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. Eddie E. Buchannan 1st Company 1st Army Corps School Det. Sgt. Thos. H. Cason Company C 106th Am. Train Pvt. George Caldwell Company B 324th Infantry Pvt. Merritt E. Carlisle Company L 327th Infantry

Corp. Henry Carlisle Battery E 21st Field Artillery Sgt. Jno. G. Chapman Quartermaster Corps Pvt. T. G. Clements 2d Provisional Depot Battalion Sgt. Maj. Guy Coffee Hdqtrs. Company 384th Infantry

Tipton Coffee Y. M. C. A. Wendell Coffee Ph. M.1 U.S.S. Kentucky Sgt. Ewell Coffee Company B 17th Engineers Corp. Harvey R. Collins Company B 6th Repl. Reg. Inf.

Pvt. A. Fennimore Cox Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Jesse W. Coleman Company B 151st Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. Hoyt Crowder 3d Company Developing Btn. Corp. Lester D. Crowder Company F 167th Infantry

Cook O. W. Culpepper Company I M.T.C.R.U. 307 Pvt. Leroy Daniel Hdqtrs. Company 167th Infantry Pvt. Elijah Daniel 6th Company Development Btn. Pvt. Robert Dailey Battery E 117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Winfred L. Deloach Battery C 7th Field Artillery Pvt. Huburt Denham Battery D 117th Field Artillery Pvt. Radney Dobson Company H 161st Infantry Pvt. Gay Dunn Company B 48th Mach. Gun Btn.

Pvt. A. E. Fincher 2d Provisional R.R.C. Pvt. George Fincher Company B 359th Infantry Pvt. Isac Free Mach. Gun Company 167th Infantry Pvt. William E. Freeman Company F 167th Infantry

Pvt. Wesley Foster Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Will H. Gill Company C 321st Infantry Corp. Tolbert H. Gray Company F 167th Infantry Corp. Ben W. Griffeth Company B 34th Engineers

Pvt. Allie Griffin Company E 123d Infantry Pvt. J. B. Grier Company G 321st Infantry Pvt. Alver Gunn Company E 7th Engineers Pvt. John B. Gunn Battery F 117th Field Artillery

Pvt. Richard Hadaway Company E 167th Infantry Pvt. Brinton Hall Company H 161st Infantry Sgt. Will H. Hammock 20th Company 156th Depot Brigade Pvt. Robert Hammock 65th Company 6th Group M.T.D.

Pvt. L. Clyde Harmon Bakery Co. 326 Pvt. Grady Harmon Company 7 Infantry Repl. Unit Pvt. Hobson H. Harmon Supply Battery 56th Field Artillery Pvt. Phillip H. Heard Company D 66th Engineers

Sgt. James Heard Company A 59th Engineers Roland Shaefer Heard Yeoman 3 c. 8 U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, S.C. Corp. Buford Heggood 118th Infantry Band 59th Brigade Pvt. Hobson Heggood Post Military Band Edgewood Arsenal

Pvt. F. M. Heggood 118th Infantry Band Pvt. Emmit Henderson Company G 165th Infantry Corp. S. Calloway Herring Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Charles Frank Hill Battery C 3d Field Artillery

Corp. John J. Seymore Company C 106th Am. Train Musc. David Holloway 167th Infantry Band Pvt. Minor Hood Company D 106th Am. Train Pvt. Jack Howard Company 17 5th Reg. U.S. Marine Corps

Pvt. Jno. M. Howarth S.A.T.C. Auburn, Ala. Pvt. Reuben J. Jennings S.A.T.C. Marion Inst. Pvt. John Johnson Company A 106th Engineers Sgt. Frank P. Jones Company F 167th Infantry

Pvt. Oscar King Company C 54th Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. Belah King 5th Company Coast Artillery Pvt. Marion W. Knight Quartermaster Corps Pvt. Joe W. Knight Marine Guard Naval Radio Station

Pvt. John C. Leonard Casual Co. 63 162d Depot Brigade Pvt. Hobson Lewis Company E 3d Infantry Pvt. Evans McGhee Company C 3d Infantry Pvt. Gip. L. McGhee 23d. Infantry

Corp. James McGlon Company H 167th Infantry Pvt. Jesse McGlon 64th Engineers R.O.T. Pvt. Curtis McNaron Company L 115th U.S.G.N.A. Pvt. Brant F. Maguire 13th Company 5th Platoon

Pvt. J. T. Manley Battery D 117th Field Artillery Pvt. Luther Martin 39th Company 10th Training Btn. 157th Depot Brigade Pvt. Earnest R. Mitchell Hdqtrs. Company 152d Depot Brigade Pvt. Lofton Mitchell Company E 106th Am. Train

Pvt. Cluster Morgan Company M 70th Infantry Pvt. Edd L. Newby Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Walter Newsome Company A 168th Infantry Corp. Eugene Oliver Company H 167th Infantry

Pvt. Calvin Parker Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Henry M. Parker Quartermaster Corps Sgt. Watson Phillips Quartermaster Corps Sgt. George C. Pryor Medical Dept. 6th Engineers

Corp. William C. Raines Headquarters Band 116th Field Artillery Pvt. Willie Rogers Company A 321st Infantry Pvt. Charles E. Sanders Motor Truck Co. 332 Pvt. Charles Sedinger Company D 6th Infantry

Pvt. Jimmie Seymour Company A 101st Infantry Pvt. Thomas M. Simms Company E 307th Engineers Pvt. Grady Smith Medical Dept. 157th Depot Brigade Pvt. Joe Smith Company F 167th Infantry

Pvt. Ollie Smith Company C 321st Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. John W. Stewart Company H 43d Infantry Sgt. James Stearns Battery C 117th Field Artillery Pvt. Harvey D. Stephens Company C 321st Mach. Gun Btn.

Corp. Eugene Stiff Company G 122d Infantry Pvt. Charles Tally Hdqtrs. Troops 314th Cavalry Horseshoer Thomas Tally Battery D 117th Field Artillery Pvt. Lomas Thomaston Company A 1st Infantry Regl. and Trn. Btn.

Corp. Thomas Thomaston Company F 167th Infantry Pvt. Hugh Turner Company D 19th Btn. U.S.G.N.A. Pvt. James Ward Company F 167th Infantry Corp. Quincer W. Whittle Company B 116th Supply Train

Pvt. Ocie T. Wilbanks Company E 20th Engineers Pvt. Colvin Wilbanks 71st Company 6th Group M.T.D. Pvt. Robert Williams Company F 167th Infantry Sgt. Jesse Von Williams Company F 167th Infantry

Sailor Charles Winningham U.S.S. Camden Detail League Island Navy Yard Charles H. Yarbrough Ph. M.3 Bay Ridge Rec. Ship Pvt. Dan H. Hart Company H 123d Infantry Pvt. Carl Smith Company H 123d Infantry

Corp. William D. Purcell Company A 306 Ammunition Train Pvt. Walter Geter Company 21 R.R.D. Pvt. Chester D. May Company F 167th Infantry Corp. Eugene Herring Company C 106th Am. Train

Pvt. Robert Hollis Company K 16th Infantry Pvt. James E. Robinson 8th Field Artillery Pvt. Hobson Cummings S.A.T.C. Auburn, Ala. Pvt. Walter Peppers Company 39 New Receiving Camp

Pvt. Jim B. Morris Hdqtrs. Company 115th Field Artillery

Roll of Honor

‡ Killed in action † Died of disease * Photo

*Adams, J. F. Allen, Marshall Alexander, Ben *Alexander, George *Allen, Loyd *Anderson, Will †*Andrews, Clyde Andrews, J. C. Aughtman, John ‡*Bachelor, Harry Baker, William *Bankston, George Barnett, Claude Barnett, Charles H. Barton, Tebe *Beal, Earl *Berry, Jesse *Blackmon, James *Blackmon, Mark *Blakely, Edgar Boggs, James G. Bowling, I. L. *Brewer, Willie H. Brewster, Earnest G. Brown, Jesse Brumaloe, C. C. *Buchannan, Edward E. *Caldwell, George *Carlisle, Henry ‡*Carlisle, Merritt Carmichael, George Carmichael, Jim *Cason, Thomas *Chapman, John *Clements, T. G. *Coffee, Ewell *Coffee, Guy *Coffee, Tipton *Coffee, Wendell *Coleman, J. W. *Collins, Harvey R. ‡*Cox, Fennimore *Crowder, Hoyt ‡*Crowder, Lester D. *Culpepper, Orein W. Cummings, Hobson *Dailey, Robert *Daniel, Elijah *Daniel, Leroy *Deloach, Winfred L. *Denham, Huburt *Dobson, Radney *Dunn, Lonnie G. East, Albert *Free, Isac *Freeman, William E. *Fincher, Eugene *Fincher, George ‡*Foster, Wesley *Geter, Walter *Gill, Will *Gray, Tolbert H. *Grier, Joe B. *Griffeth, Ben W. *Griffin, Allie *Gunn, Alver T. *Gunn, John B. *Hadaway, Richard *Hall, Brinton *Hammock, Robert L. *Hammock, Will H. *Harmon, Clyde *Harmon, Grady *Harmon, Hobson *Hart, Dan *Heard, Phillip *Heard, James E. *Heard, Shaefer *Heggood, Buford *Heggood, F. M. *Heggood, Hobson *Henderson, Emmit *Herring, Eugene *Herring, S. Calloway *Hill, Charles Frank Hill, Charlie *Hollis, Robert *Holloway, David *Hood, Minor *Howard, Jack *Howarth, John M. Jenkins, Hamp *Jennings, Rube J. *Johnson, John *Jones, Frank P. Kendrick, John *King, Belah *King, Oscar *Knight, Marion *Knight, Joe Knight, Horace Kynard, O. D. *Leonard, John C. *Lewis, Hobson J. Lewis, Edd Manning, E. Martin, Clarence *May, Chester D. *Mitchell, Earnest *Mitchell, Lofton *Morgan, Cluster *Morris, Jim B. *Maguire, Brant F. *Manley, J. T. *Martin, Luther *McGhee, Evans McGhee, Gip L. *McGlon, Jesse *McGlon, James *McNaron, Curtis Neese, Kenny *Newby, Edd L. *Newsome, Walter Norman, Raemon *Oliver, Eugene *Parker, Calvin *Parker, Mose Henry Peppers, Walter *Phillips, Watson *Pryor, George C. *Purcell, William D. *Raines, William C. Robinson, James E. Robinson, Oscar *Rogers, William *Sanders, C. E. Sands, L. C. *Sedinger, Charles *Seymore, James *Seymore, John J. *Sims, Thomas M. *Smith, Carl *Smith, Grady *Smith, Joe *Smith, Ollie *Stearns, James *Stevens, Harvey D. Stevens, Otis *Stewart, John W. *Stiff, Eugene *Tally, Charlie *Tally, Robert ‡*Thomaston, Thomas *Thomaston, William L. *Turner, Hugh *Ward, James *Whittle, Quincer *Wilbanks, Colvin *Wilbanks, Ocie T. *Williams, Jesse Von *Williams, Robert *Winningham, Charles Winslett, R. D. *Yarbrough, Charles H.

Colored

Askew, Frank Brock, Bill Collins, Jim Collins, John Chappel, Dock Cheery, Abraham Dallis, Willie Duncan, James D. Duncan, John Duncan, Will Duncan, Lindsey Fitspatrick, Henry Gates, Richard Gipson, Charlie Gordon, W. M. Goss, Jim Goss, Napoleon Greenwood, Enoch Greer, William A., Jr. Harris, Hosea Hill, Clarence Hill, Stanley Huguley, Dock Jordon, Edd McKinley, Jeff Oliver, Wesley Oneal, Alva Roberson, Early Scott, Lee Smith, Elijah Towles, Willie Trammel, Luther Watkins, Robert Weston, Gilbert Weston, Willie Winston, Jeff Winston, Zack

Extracts of Appreciation

“To know that the people at home are squarely back of us just doubles our determination to lick the Boche.... Our first Battalion was the first American troops to capture prisoners without the aid of the French or British.”

David Holloway

July 8, 1918

“I beg to inform you that there are boys here from the largest cities in the country who have been here a long time and never have received as much as a card from the numerous organizations in their home cities while I have had letters from Lanett Service Station and only been here a month. The boys all admit that they have to take off their hats to Lanett for the spirit the folks at home show in backing up the boys.”

Hobson G. Heggood

“And if it so be I will stand on the vine clad hills of sunny France and give my life for a cause that is just and right.”

Evans McGhee

June 14, 1918. Eagle Pass, Texas

“Our motto is ‘Over the Top and give them H—’ and you can take it from me that is just what they are doing. Our boys are fighting like our grandfathers fought back in the sixties and they are making for themselves a name which will never be forgotten.”

Dave Holloway.

September 21, 1918. Musician, 167th Inf. Band, Somewhere in France

“And I am glad that I have such a patriotic town to back me while I do a little to help beat the Beast of Berlin.”

Sgt. Eugene C. Stiff.

July 23, 1918. Company 9, 122d Infantry

“I wish to thank you for the interest the Service Station is taking in me and I am sure all the boys from dear old Lanett feel the same as myself.... We had three battles with the ‘Subs’ on my last trip and I am proud to say we got three ‘Subs’ out of three battles.”

Chas. H. Yarbrough.

On Board U. S. S. Zeelandia

“We drove the enemy out of places that looked impossible for it to be done, tunnels and under hills and mountains several hundred feet deep, but believe me we went in after them without any mercy and finally got them going so fast we had to put doughboys in motor trucks and hook the kitchens on behind to keep up with them.”

Thomas M. Sims.

November 30, 1918. Company E, 307th Engineers

“Again I offer you a rising and unanimous vote of thanks for your kind letters. Number 10 reached me this week and did me more good than a check for $50.00 would.... You will have to admit that when the world wanted Germany licked they sent over the A. E. F. (After England Failed) and three days after I reached the front the second time, the Kaiser packed his trick clothes, threw his crown into the garbage pail, put on his rubber boots and let himself out the back door.”

Corp. W. D. Purcell

November 21, 1918

“You have no idea how we love to hear from home and to feel that you remember us. We can fight a heap better when we’re reminded once in a while that our loved ones are helping us by keeping us in touch with home and sacrificing in numerous ways that we may be more comfortable.”

George Bankston

July 16, 1918. The Rhode Island

“It is just beginning to seem like 1919 to me and it will be a happy year I am sure because it means that I am coming back to the only country on earth with all my feet and hands still attached to me.

“Don’t close the station until all of us are out of France. I would miss your letters and I want to see all the folks at the station and thank them for their backing and the interest taken in the boys.”

Corp. Wm. D. Purcell

January, 1919. Somewhere in France

“My chum called to me and we counted two hundred air planes going over to Germany and they were all in sight at one time and they made me think of a flock of wild geese back in the States.”

Alver Gunn

October, 1918. Somewhere in France

“I thank God I am an American and will go down with my comrades if the good Lord so wills that I go that way.”

Extract from letter dated August 27, 1918, from Thomas Thomaston, Company F, 167th Infantry, who was killed before his letter reached the Service Station.

“Yesterday was Christmas and believe me we had some dinner—turkey, pies, California cake, dressing, mashed potatoes, celery, tangerines, cigarettes and one cigar and a few other things I did not know any name for—and that makes me think, I thank you many, many times for the Christmas box. You could not have sent anything that would have pleased me more and I assure you it was appreciated by myself and friends.”

Corp. Wm. D. Purcell

December 26, 1918. Co. A, 306th Am. Train

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Lanett

J. I. Warner, chairman Lillian Warner, secretary J. L. Weldon J. H. Horrarth J. A. Simmons

RECEPTION ROOM. WAR SERVICE STATION. Lanett

WAR SERVICE STATION, Lanett

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Lanett

Managing Committee of Lanett

Geo. H. Lanier Geo. S. Harris R. W. Jennings J. H. Howarth J. J. Jordan

TEAM No. 1 Geo. S. Harris, Captain J. D. Anderson John Knowles Edgar Mitchell W. W. Wallis John King John Simmons TEAM No. 2 R. W. Jennings, Captain John I. Warner W. H. Gray Britt Veazey Geo. Heard TEAM No. 3 D. A. Jolly, Captain Tom Swan P. Sorrell W. Hollis Geo. Cromer B. Pennington TEAM No. 4 W. S. Leatherwood, Captain C. E. Lunceford H. E. Mathews A. J. Weldon J. N. Barrow TEAM No. 5 Tipton Coffee, Captain Rev. D. M. Joiner G. F. Partridge E. J. Gilbert R. D. King TEAM No. 6 D. J. Crowder, Captain J. T. Aughtman H. C. Hamilton C. E. DeLoach Sam Jones TEAM No. 7 Lewis Wright, Captain C. M. Brady G. B. Avery Clyde Blakely Geo. Lanier TEAM No. 8 Samuel Hayes, Captain K. Kitchens Patrick Sullivan Keil Howell Neal Holstun TEAM No. 9 W. F. Sims, Captain E. R. Cummings John Brewer Jno. Strickland Smith Lanier TEAM No. 10 Dawson Swint, Captain W. W. Whitson Sam Goodman Ray Coffee Arthur Hagedorn L. S. Philips TEAM No. 11 J. J. Jordan, Captain W. H. Knight J. H. Stevens Tom McClendon U. S. Waters TEAM No. 12 John Hagedorn, Captain C. C. Wilbanks Lee Heyman C. W. Milford W. R. Harrison TEAM No. 13 Dr. J. L. Weldon, Captain Dr. Whatley J. H. Allen Carl Crouch H. M. Gay TEAM No. 14 T. L. Crouch, Captain V. M. Wood Amos Priester J. A. Wheeler O. K. Waites TEAM No. 15 O. A. Bonner, Captain Harvey Weldon Luther Boyd Wm. Z. Taylor O. C. McClendon TEAM No. 16 R. C. Stanfield, Captain J. T. Winningham A. C. Lynn S. T. Jones TEAM No. 17 James Wallace, Captain Emory Coffee W. H. Wright E. P. Rutland Parker Horn A. L. Smith TEAM No. 18 J. C. Berry, Captain Jesse Laudermilk Dr. McCulloh Homer Wilbanks Bob Harrison TEAM No. 19 W. L. Osborne, Captain Ed Rainey W. H. Harvey J. E. Ridgeway John Harrison

Committee of Ladies

TEAM No. 20 Mrs. Geo. Harris, Captain Mrs. C. W. Warner Mrs. J. L. Weldon Mrs. Dawson Swint Mrs. Britt Veazey TEAM No. 21 Mrs. J. H. Howarth, Captain Mrs. Patrick Sullivan Mrs. Willie Grey Mrs. D. A. Jolly Mrs. C. E. DeLoach TEAM No. 22 Mrs. Chas. Stevens, Captain Miss Cordelia Micou Miss Estelle Heard Mrs. Homer Wilbanks Miss Ruby Pearce TEAM No. 23 Mrs. Geo. H. Lanier, Captain Mrs. John Hagedorn Mrs. Lee Heyman Mrs. Morris Darden Miss Katie Smith Mrs. Jamie Johnson TEAM No. 24 Mrs. John King, Captain Miss Flora Clyde Warner Miss Helen Howarth Miss Florence Weldon Miss Hatty Knowles TEAM No. 25 Mrs. S. L. Hayes, Captain Mrs. Adah Stevens Miss Gertrude Crowder Miss Grace Stevens Miss Frances Wallace

Committee Report

Second Liberty Loan $1,650.00

Third Liberty Loan 53,700.00

Fourth Liberty Loan 55,850.00

Victory Liberty Loan 30,300.00

Total $141,500.00

United War Work Fund $2,451.00

First Red Cross War Fund $1,822.56

Second Red Cross War Fund $5,294.00

War Stamps $104,707.00

Salvation Army Drive $313.40

From Lanett Red Cross

Sweaters 38

Sox, pairs 23

Pajamas, pairs 21

Towels 44

Bed shirts 78

Bandages 65

Comfort kits 5

Convalescent robes 6

Refugee garments 1006

Letters written to boys in Service 1972

Letters received from boys in Service 423

Other letters written 291

Number of packages forwarded 57

Number of visitors at War Service Station 2515

Total now in Service: white 164, colored 37 201

Number of Bulletins mailed 2648

Killed in action 6

Died of disease 1

Wounded 16