Published by The Dalles High School Students, June edition, page 36 WAR DEPARTMENT FRED PALMER December 11, 1917, six of us Dalles boys in the same company, including, "Shorty" Elton, Jim Carroll, Herbert Parker, "Art" Gosting, Penn Crum and myself, sailed for England. We landed Christmas day in Liverpool. From there we went to France, and arrived in Le Harve the first of January. We stayed there only a few days and then returned to England, where we remained the rest of the time. Our work there was to take care of troops going through England. Over one million were handled there by the second Battalion of the 162nd Infantry. We left England on the 19th day of April, 1919, on the Louisville and arrived in New York the 30th of the same month. I don't think there is any comparison between the United States and England, as they are so far behind time. I have had several of the girls ask me what I thought of the girls in England. So I will take this opportunity to say that the English girls CAN'T COMPARE WITH THE AMERICAN GIRLS. CORPORAL FRED D. PALMER, Formerly with the 162nd Inf., Company G -- C.A.T., '19 Submitted by Earline Wasser