YOUNG, Earl

Dear Folks,

I will try and drop you a few lines and let you know that I am alright and getting along fine. Well I wanted to tell you that I am not able to go back to the front for a while and have been given light duty behind the lines for a while. I am with the 163rd Field Hospital and I like the work fine. Have very good officers and they are all mostly from Seattle and I feel pretty much at home with this company. We are with the first army. I have not heard any thing fro Everett or seen any body that has run across him. Haven't received a letter from you since last June and it was written in May, so my mail must be lost som eplace. Maybe if I stay with this outfit my mail will catch up with me. When you write let me know what outfit Everett is in so I may get a chance to hear from him and do not worry about me for I am treated fine here, and like the work fine and expect to stay with them for some time, so you can write to me.

Hoping this letter will find you well I will close for this time.

Your son,

Pvt. Earl Young, }Field Hospital 163rd AEF

returned to duty

Private Earl Young who was previously reported Missing In Action since July 18 is now reported returned to duty. The telegram announcing Pvt. Young's return to service was received Tuesday by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Young. Pvt Young had been Wounded in Action at the time he was reported missing. When the notice arrived here that Pvt Young was missing, letters had been received from him that were written since the date he was reported missing. At that time he was in the hospital and wrote that he was recovering. The conflicting reports led his parents to write to Washington for an investigation. The last report shows Young has recovered and returned to active service.