News: Forest Barnes Now Safe Overseas (1918)

BARNES

Posted By: Melissa Mayhew Grandt (email)
Date: 5/14/2009 at 05:12:34

Iowa City Citizen, Iowa City (Johnson Co.), Iowa, 18 October 1918.

FOREST BARNES NOW SAFE OVERSEAS
A.E. Barnes, of Scott township has received a card from his son, Private Forest W. Barnes of the United States Marine Corps, informing him that he has arrived safely overseas. Private Barnes is a sharpshooter, and had been stationed at Camp Quantico, Virginia, before sailing.