TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 10, 1918 P.1
U.S.M.C., Hdq. U.S. Naval Air Service, Paris, France.
Dear Sister:
Your most welcome letter received yesterday, and as this is Sunday and I am off duty today I will try to let you know that I am fine and wish I could see you all this morning.
It is 8:30 a.m. now and I don't know what I will do today to pass the time away. It is cold here today and looks as tho it might rain; I hope not for it is so lonesome when it rains on Sundays.
I went to a movie show Friday evening and enjoyed myself very much; it was the first show I had seen for three months. I couldn't read French but I could see the pictures.
You asked if I had met any of the boys from home. No, I haven't recognized any one from there yet. I don't know if I would know any of them after three years time.
We were at the front for some time this summer and it is real exciting up there. I think the war will not last much longer. The French and British have been doing good work, and we are gaining ground.
The leaves are falling here now and it makes me think of home. But we are here to stick it out to the end. No German has got me yet, but we felt the jar from some bombs not long ago.
Well I don't know much more to write you that I can write. I think I will go to the Y.M.C.A. this afternoon and get a good shower bath and come back and sleep the rest of the day.
Hope you will get this and write as often as you can. Much love to all.
From your brother,
WILLIAM C. ALLEN.
NOTES: Allen was writing to his sister Sarah Allen of Route 3 Rogers, Arkansas. He departed Brest, France on June 19, 1919 onboard the George Washington. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on July 8, 1919. He was listed as a Cpl. serving in Marine Bet. USN Casual Co. #2 Hq. District of Paris.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
U.S.M.C., Hdq. U.S. Naval Air Service, Paris, France.
Dear Sister:
Your most welcome letter received yesterday, and as this is Sunday and I am off duty today I will try to let you know that I am fine and wish I could see you all this morning.
It is 8:30 a.m. now and I don't know what I will do today to pass the time away. It is cold here today and looks as tho it might rain; I hope not for it is so lonesome when it rains on Sundays.
I went to a movie show Friday evening and enjoyed myself very much; it was the first show I had seen for three months. I couldn't read French but I could see the pictures.
You asked if I had met any of the boys from home. No, I haven't recognized any one from there yet. I don't know if I would know any of them after three years time.
We were at the front for some time this summer and it is real exciting up there. I think the war will not last much longer. The French and British have been doing good work, and we are gaining ground.
The leaves are falling here now and it makes me think of home. But we are here to stick it out to the end. No German has got me yet, but we felt the jar from some bombs not long ago.
Well I don't know much more to write you that I can write. I think I will go to the Y.M.C.A. this afternoon and get a good shower bath and come back and sleep the rest of the day.
Hope you will get this and write as often as you can. Much love to all.
From your brother,
WILLIAM C. ALLEN.
NOTES: Allen was writing to his sister Sarah Allen of Route 3 Rogers, Arkansas. He departed Brest, France on June 19, 1919 onboard the George Washington. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on July 8, 1919. He was listed as a Cpl. serving in Marine Bet. USN Casual Co. #2 Hq. District of Paris.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD