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STONE COUNTY BOY IN HOSPITAL J WRITES OF LIFE AT THE FRONTJarvis Dale, Whose Brother Was Killed In Action Three Years Ago, Says Life At the Front Is Not 'So Nice After All“I have carried out my intentions and have received full pay for my brother’s death,” writes Jarvis G. Dale, a Stone County boy who has been in France for several months doing service with the American armies, and whose brother, Carson, killed three years ago in the battle of Verdun when he was with the British forces battling with the Germans in the Vet dun woods,The letter received here from Jarvis was dated November 10th, written the day before the armistice was signed. It appears he was unaware of the near end of the war. The letter apparently was written while in a Red Cross Hospital, as the stationery used would indicate.‘‘To show my friends that I meant just what T said, I got reduced from a mechanic to a buck private at my own request in order to be transferred to the front lines. I have been up at front and over the top since I arrived in France,” he writes, ‘‘but the hospital is where I landed after all. I am very well satisfied even though I did meet with a little misfortune, but I’ll over it easily.‘T am in Company I, 356th Infantry, 89th Division and I suppose the papers have given a pretty good account of what the 89th Division has been doing.There are a hunch of jolly good fellows in my company, most of them like myself they don’t care what comes or goes—anil we’re all a bunch of pr'u wild fellows.‘‘1 could tell a gi if I- !. u. would be of interest * . . ■censorship will not pei ever, I want to assure .y inn, being at the front isn’t an.vtliinu like some might think. It’s a tough place, believe me.”Jarvis Dale went into service over two years ago at the same time that several other Stone County boys entered, and was in Company D of the National Guard when he did service on the Mexican border.It will be remembered that Carson Dale, a twin brother to Jarvis, went to Franee about .four years ago and joined the British army, and it was when his divison was stationed near Verdun, France, that he was killed in action, his relatives here being notified of his death. It was shortly after this that Jarvis, who was at that time working here with his father as a carpenter, offered his services to his country, and on several occasions be had expressed his wishes as hoping to some day be able to battle against tho Gormans, who were responsible for the death of his brother.
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Wiggins Stone County Enterprise
Wiggins, Mississippi, US
Sat, Dec 07, 1918
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