Walter Riggle (Camp Hancock, Georgia) to L. P. Riggle (Cameron, WV), letter, 4 January 1918

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Greene Connections

Name/Title

Walter Riggle (Camp Hancock, Georgia) to L. P. Riggle (Cameron, WV), letter, 4 January 1918

Entry/Object ID

2019.20.28

Scope and Content

Walter Riggle (Camp Hancock, Georgia) to L. P. Riggle (Cameron, WV), letter, 4 January 1918. Walter wrote this letter to his father at home, while he was in military training at Camp Hancock, Georgia, ahead of shipping out to the battlefields of France, 3 May 1918 with Company K, 110th Infantry, 28th Division. TRANSCRIPT: "Camp Hancock Jan. 4, 1918 Dear Father, I suppose you have gotten my letter of a few days ago. I did not write much because I did not have time. I want to tell you about something, which I have never mentioned and I want you to mention it to absolutely no one. I was recommended some time ago by my platoon commander, at the request of my corporal, to the Co. commander for the officer training school. Later Capt. Montgomery recommended me to the division examining board, and they decided to give me a chance I guess for they summoned me over to Reg. headquarters this morning and started on the work. There are about 500 men from the Div. in the school and K Co., 110, has 8 of them. A larger number possibly than any other Co. here. The school will last 3 months, ending April 5, and I guess we will catch the very hardest kind of work. So, do not be surprised if I do not write much. I think I shall be able to get a furlough next April. Do not be surprised if I am wearing the gold hat cord and shoulder bars then, and on the other hand don't be too much disappointed if I fail. Any way I will give them -- and they can't say it was because I did not try. The express box has never come. I got a letter from J. L. Murray this morning. I am alright, except a cold, which seems very hard to get rid of here. Can you tell me something good for it? Now remember mum is the word. From Walter"

Collection

Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection

Lexicon

Search Terms

Letters (Correspondence), Military, Rain Day Boys, Riggle family, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th. Regiment, 110th. Company K., Veterans--World War I

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

Jan 4, 1918

Archive Notes

Level of Description: Item

Other Names and Numbers

Other Number

Other Number: RIGL-AN001-0028

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Montgomery, Walter Curry [1879-1963]

Person or Organization

Riggle, Lewis Perry

Person or Organization

Riggle, Walter Bertram [1894-1918]

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Riggle Series - Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection

Notes

The Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection was passed from Lewis Perry Riggle and his wife, Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle, to their son Karl Wayne Riggle and his wife, Anna Geraldine (Whipkey) Riggle, to their daughter, Marcene (Riggle) Schutz, to her niece, Paula (Riggle) Whitfill who presently owns and has digitized the collection. Paula (Riggle) Whitfill and her aunt Joyce (Riggle) Hoover collaborated to share selected items from the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2018. Source Citation: Walter Riggle (Camp Hancock, Georgia) to L. P. Riggle (Cameron, WV), letter, 4 January 1918, item no. RIGL-AN001-0028, Lewis Perry and Nora Etta (Kuhn) Riggle Collection, shared by Paula (Riggle) Whitfill and her aunt Joyce (Riggle) Hoover, Greene Connections Archives Project (www.GreeneConnections.com).