This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Walling, Bates Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/220 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, June 17, 1918 ARE ALL READY TO GO NOW. >From Saturday’s Daily. A letter from Thomas WALLING who is at Camp Cody, at Deming, New Mexico, says that they have had their summer wear taken from them and woolens substituted, in preparations for going across the pond, and then for some reason, they were not allowed to go, and the excessive heat in that latitude makes life almost unbearable with the woolens on, and the troops are compelled to go almost without clothing during the wait, which they are hoping will be soon, that they can get to doing something and they do not even have to drill during the time of waiting. Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 4, 1918 HAS SAILED FOR FRANCE [front page] >From Tuesday’s Daily. Thomas WALLING jr., who was one of the enlisted men last summer and was sent to the south to a cantonment, a few days since sailed for France, having for some time past been located at Camp Merritt, near Englewood, N.M., and while there was the guest most of his time of Mr. and Mrs. Albert CLAYBAUGH. They are living there. They took the young man to their home and showed him much of New York and Coney Island, which made it a very pleasant stay at the camp for Mr. Walling. While living here, Mr. and Mrs. Claybaugh were both well acquainted with Thomas Walling jr., and it was a treat to them as well as to him to have the society of each other, and they all thoroughly en Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 22, 1918 THOMAS WALLING IN FRANCE >From Monday’s Daily. Thomas WALLING and wife have just received a letter from their son Thomas WALLING jr., who arrived in France some time since and who says that he is liking France very well, but that as yet, he has not saw very much of the country and is so far as yet in the rear that he cannot hear anything of the big guns at the front. His relatives and many friends here are pleased to hear from him. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, September 16, 1918 LEFT OMAHA YESTERDAY. >From Saturday’s Daily. Thomas WALLING returned last evening from Omaha, where he had gone to see his son, Robert WALLING, away, and says that the company got away over the Great Northern, at 2;20 in the afternoon, with their baggage marked Virginia. Just where they are going no one knows, and while most of the company which is the Balloon school company from Ft. Omaha think they are destined for Virginia, via Chicago, some hold that they are going to the Pacific Coast. Plattsmouth Journal, Monday, December 2, 1918 HEARS FROM FRIEND IN FRANCE >From Friday’s Daily. The other day our Col. M.A. BATES received a letter from his friend, Thomas WALLING, Jr., that was written in France and told of some experiences which he had been having there, and of how near he thought the fighting to be over. How true he surmised the situation is best shown in the fact that his letter was written on November 6th, only a few days before the actual signing of the armistice that brought about peace. Thomas stated that he had gone out for a walk, and in passing thru a wood, he came upon a place where someone had recently camped and there he noticed a copy of the Plattsmouth Journal. How he pounced upon that paper and read every word of it is described in his letter. He also makes mention of the terrible time he is having in trying to talk with the French people. Thomas likes the country and speaks of it as being very beautiful, but entirely different from America.