Pages That Mention Colonel Hume
Charles E. H. Bates Family Correspondence, 1899-1930 - 7
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and then came home in July.
I have had a letter or two from Old Swetty. I imagine he doesn't feel quite natural to be out of the service. He is up in Paris, Maine, looking after his two youngsters — their mother died while he was overseas. He sent me a snapshot taken in the States of General Edwards, Colonel Hume and himself together. I believe he was transferred back to the 26th just before they returned to the States.
I'm going to enclose a Kodak print (which is very poor) taken up on the front lines the