TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 30, 1918 P. 6
Please withdraw the $1,000 that you have invested for me at interest and buy Liberty bonds of the fourth loan for me. Also buy war saving stamps with the $20 a month I am sending home. I want to do this much for my native land.
I expect to have a leave for Paris in a month or so, the first I have had since my four days in London a year ago. You are mistaken in thinking that I can go into detail about my work because the Americans do it. The Yanks get away with a lot we cannot, and some of the most interesting things about our organization we have been warned not to tell or write about. We have been especially lucky for the past few months to work some distance behind the lines, but previous to that I have found it plenty interesting, and the battalion spent nearly a year in and about the warmest place on the western front. We do all kinds of railway work, as well as other things, and we change jobs occasionally, so it does not get dull.
NOTES: Gordon Stewart Angell was writing to his sister, Mrs. T. L. Brummett. He was born on February 18, 1883 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He attempted to join the U.S. army but was rejected. He went to Canada and was accepted in the Canadian Engineering Corps. He swore his oath to the service of His Majesty King George the fifth on August 10, 1917.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
Please withdraw the $1,000 that you have invested for me at interest and buy Liberty bonds of the fourth loan for me. Also buy war saving stamps with the $20 a month I am sending home. I want to do this much for my native land.
I expect to have a leave for Paris in a month or so, the first I have had since my four days in London a year ago. You are mistaken in thinking that I can go into detail about my work because the Americans do it. The Yanks get away with a lot we cannot, and some of the most interesting things about our organization we have been warned not to tell or write about. We have been especially lucky for the past few months to work some distance behind the lines, but previous to that I have found it plenty interesting, and the battalion spent nearly a year in and about the warmest place on the western front. We do all kinds of railway work, as well as other things, and we change jobs occasionally, so it does not get dull.
NOTES: Gordon Stewart Angell was writing to his sister, Mrs. T. L. Brummett. He was born on February 18, 1883 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He attempted to join the U.S. army but was rejected. He went to Canada and was accepted in the Canadian Engineering Corps. He swore his oath to the service of His Majesty King George the fifth on August 10, 1917.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT