Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Fred Hamilton Still Anxious To Join American Forces. [ARTICLE]

Fred Hamilton Still Anxious To Join American Forces.

The following is clipped from the Saturday's Indianapolis Star: “I want to go back to Indiana,and then return to France as an Indiana soldier—as a member of the Hoosier National Guard,” read a letter which Adjt. Gen. Harry B. Smith received yesterday from Fred H. Hamilton, son of Louis H. Hamilton, of Rensselaer, .Ind., who is “Somewhere in France” as a member of the Bordon Motor Machine Gun Company of the Canadian forces. Hamilton has been in France since last January. “I am a qualified Vickers, Lewis and Colt gunner and I am now with the Bordon Machine Gun Company,” he wrote. “I hope it may be arranged so that I may be transferred to the Indiana National Guard, for I want to be oq the battle field as a soldier of dear old Indiana.” Adjt. Gen. Smith will inquire of the Washington military authorities if there is a provision whereby Hamilton may be returned to an Indiana military organization.