Shawmut

Sgt. Curtis Avery Amer. Military Com. Q.M.C. Pvt. Herbert Avery S.A.T.C. Pvt. John J. Baker Company C 39th Infantry Corp. J. C. Barnes Company I 167th Infantry

Corp. D. H. Barnes 5th Aero Squadron Rep. Pvt. Floyd Blackwelder S.A.T.C. Capt. J. I. Bowles Company E 106th Supply Train Pvt. James Bridges Company H 167th Infantry

Pvt. Hoyt A. Canady Company K 167th Infantry Pvt. John Carmack 7th Co. 13th M.P.C. Embarkation Center Pvt. Elige Champion Battery E 117th Field Artillery Pvt. Claudius H. Cole (Marine) Balloon Det. H.A.F.

Pvt. J. W. Conway Company C 151st Mach. Gun Btn. Sgt. Cliff Conway Company F 103d Infantry Pvt. Marion L. Connell Company A 48th Mach. Gun Btn. Pvt. Geo. Cottle Battery D 18th Field Artillery

Roy D. Coulter Marine Sgt. Jones S. Davis Base Hospital 21 Pvt. Jakie S. Edge Company K 1st Pioneers Inf. Pvt. H. H. Elloit 20th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 156th Depot Brigade

Corp. Howard S. Fling Company I 167th Infantry Pvt. Kenon Foster 11th Infantry Nov. Repl. Pvt. G. W. Hollis Cas. Company 43 162d Depot Brigade Tent Area 4 Sgt. John F. Hollis Squadron 488 Const.

Pvt. Clyde Huff Company I 167th Infantry Floyd Hughey U.S.N. Pvt. Reuben Howell Company I Development Battalion Pvt. T. B. James 40th Co. 10th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot Brigade

Pvt. J. M. Jarrell Battery D 129th Field Artillery Pvt. Walter Jarrell 4th Prov. Company Pvt. Adolphus Johnson Oversea Casual Co. 24th Camp Pike. A.R.D. Pvt. Burl D. Jones Company E 167th Infantry

Wag. R. L. Jones H.S. Company 106th San. Tr. Pvt. Hiram A. Keel Company B 52d Infantry Pvt. Geo. Kemp Battery C 6th Field Artillery Pvt. Mac Lackey 4th Provisional Co.

Sgt. T. B. Lanier Bakery Co. 366 Quartermaster Corps Corp. C. M. Lawhorn Company H 167th Infantry Pvt. J. C. Lyons Company I 167th Infantry Corp. W. F. McCarley Company I 167th Infantry

Pvt. Wm. P. Mangrum Company H 167th Infantry Pvt. Wilfred O. Mangrum Company D 17th Infantry Pvt. Rance A. Milam Company I 327th Infantry Pvt. Otis B. Newman Company M 331st Infantry

Pvt. N. D. Phillips 243d M.P. Co. Pvt. Frank Pitts Company H 167th Infantry Pvt. Horace L. Pratt 801. 343 Q.M.C. Pvt. Harold Pritchard S.A.T.C.

Lee Ruff U.S. Navy U.S.S. Von Stubin Sgt. J. C. Sewell Company E 106th Supply Train Corp. J. R. Sharpe Company B 102d Infantry T. A. Simms U.S. Navy U.S.S. Mt. Vernon

Pvt. Alva Smith 17th Co. 5th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot Brigade Pvt. L. C. Smith S.A.T.C. 1st Lieut. A. C. Smith 301st E. Remount Sqd. Pvt. E. L. Spivey 22d Co. 6th Tr. Btn. 157th Depot Brigade

Corp. J. H. Stephens Bakery Company 2 Q.M.C. Det. J. S. Sledge U.S. Navy U.S.S. Louisiana Pvt. Thomas H. Still Company C 161st Infantry Bugler C. T. Terrell Company I 167th Infantry

Pvt. Thomas M. Aikens Battery D 18th Field Artillery Pvt. Bennie Thomas Marine Pvt. Thomas G. Tyson Company I 6th Infantry Wag. John T. Wallace Supply Company 11th Infantry

W. L. Warren U.S. Navy U.S.S. Oklahoma Pvt. Sam J. Warren Cas. Company 63 162d Depot Brigade Pvt. Kyle Waters 327th Field Hospital 307th San. Train Pvt. Roy Watkins Machine Gun Co. 56th Infantry

Clinton Waters U.S. Navy U.S.S. Rathhurn Pvt. John D. Whatley A. & B. School Camp Sevier, S.C. Pvt. John Deward White Hdqtrs. Company 321st Infantry Pvt. Olin Whitlaw Cas. Company 33 Cas. Detachment 162d Depot Brigade

Corp. Paul W. Smith Company G 1st Pioneers Infantry 2d Btn. H.Q.I. Pvt. Floyd White Company D 23d Infantry Pvt. Joe Word 122d A.C. 106th San. Train Pvt. Bernard Manley Company A 113th F.A.

Pvt. N. B. Murphy Student Marine Training Corps Private A. E. Beaird Company I 327th Infantry

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

WAR SERVICE STATION, Shawmut

WAR SERVICE COMMITTEE, Shawmut G. C. Wagnon C. A. Singleterry J. T. Hollis Geo. W. Murphy Mrs. Jack Plaut, ass’t sec’y J. R. Edwards Mrs. Mary M. Bugg, sec’y

RED CROSS WORK ROOM, Shawmut

RECEPTION ROOM, WAR SERVICE STATION, Shawmut

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

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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.