Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1917 — WANTS TO ENLIST IN INDIANA [ARTICLE]

WANTS TO ENLIST IN INDIANA

Fred Hamilton Asks to Serre With Hoosier Soldiers. “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 Adjutant General ,Harry B. Smith received recently from Fred H. Hamilton, son of Louis 11. Hamilton of Rensselaer, who is ‘'Somewhere in France” as a member 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 tha’ l may be transferred to the Indiana national guard -for I want to be on the battlefield as a soldier of dear old Indiana.” Adjutant General Smith will Inquire of the Washington military authorities if there is a provision whereby Hamilton may be returned to an Indiana military organization. —lndianapolis News.