This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Allen Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/255.5.1 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, November 4, 1918 CORPORAL WAYNE ALLEN IS NOW IN ENGLAND. >From Saturday’s Daily. Corporal Wayne Allen, who has been at Camp Cody and later at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma, and still later at Camp Dix, N.J., where for the past year he has been engaged most of the time teaching drilling instructions to troops, has arrived at England where he is with the other troops and is safer for the fray. He is also eager to get over [illegible] and meet with his brother Ralph Allen who has been there and is in the thickest of the fray for many months. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 16, 1918 MEMBER OF RAINBOW DIVISION WRITES TO HIS MOTHER MRS. M.B. ALLEN OF THIS CITY TELLING OF HIS EXPERIENCES. WAS IN SERVICE LONG TIME Saw Much actual Service in trenches, Over Top and In Hospital, Many Experiences >From Saturday’s Daily. Ralph ALLEN, who has been in the real war, with the experience which has made the Rainbow Division the most noted in all the armies of the world, has written to his mother regarding some of his experiences. He thinks he has had enough of the war for one young man, was at the time of writing in a sopital, for a minor wound, but had been wounded before but has said nothing regarding it. [see Ralph Allen, Rainbow Division] The following was sent by Corp. Wayne H. ALLEN from France, and it is in circulation in the camps all over France: National Guard Boys. Didn’t know much, but did know something, Learned while the others played; Didn’t delay for a commission, but went while others stayed. Took no degrees at Camp Cody, needed too soon for the game; Ready at hand to be asked for, orders read “Come” and they came. We never got bars on our shoulders, or three months to see if we could; Didn’t get classed with the regulars, or told we were equally good. Just enlisted and got busy on the training at Camp Cody, Awkward were we but intent [article darkens too much to read on]