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Harriet Ritter/Barry Burd Genealogy |
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Ervey France Dear Cassandra Just rec’d your letter and I was very glad to hear from you. Its not an easy matter to write letters over here, as the weather is not very suitable for anything but sitting by the fire, and that seldom happens. The biggest part of my troubles at present is trying to figure out when we are going to see the sun come up over American soil. It would take many a volume to tell you of what I have seen and done in France, so will write until I get back. These clippings are some I have been carrying in my pocket for some time. Places on the map will show you where we started in and finished at the (?) Arrsne) river. The division started on the Hindenburg line at Souain. I was through the whole advance on the Champagne, and saw some service on the Verdun front near Beaumont. We landed at Brest and stayed there four days. I had a chance to see the town and the old Napoleon prison barracks. We do our writing in a French Y.M.C.A. near our billets. I have a few souveniers of the front that I intend to bring back, but it is a big job to do, as they must be watched all the time or carried in my pockets. One feels like a salvage yard sometimes loaded with shells, buttons, knives and small artillery. The finest souvenier I have seen is a little French tank that got a one pound shell hole in the dome of it on the Champagne. I wanted to hang it on behind my truck and tow it in to camp to play with. I will close for this time, hoping I will beat the next letter home.
Harry Co. A 111th supply A.P.O. 79 P A.E.F. (Uncle Harry Welker) |
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