TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BENTON COURIER AUGUST 8, 1918 P. 7
Pauillac Gironde, France, July 10.
Mrs. W. H. Bard.
Bryant, Ark., U. S. A.
Dear Homefolks:
I would like to hear from you. I wonder what you are doing these warm days. I am just fine; still in the Seaman Guard. I take a walk out into the country every time I get time, and I rather like the way the French do their work, but my they are so slow. I think it is about time that I was getting some mail from some one in the U. S. A., since I have been here most a month now.
We take short hikes every day or two. It is awfully warm here in the day and cool at night. The grapes will be getting ripe soon, I judge, and think there will be a good crop of them. How are crops there by now? They are fine over here.
I am not learning to speak French very fast. I find that it is not so easy to learn as Spanish. I am thinking of going to bed now, and you all are not up good, but nevertheless it’s that way.
I went to the Y. M. C. A. this evening to hear a fellow make a talk on the war. It was good. We have a show here in Pauillac every week. They are usually good. Some of them I have seen in the States, but I enjoy seeing them again. You know that we make fun out of everything we can, and that helps to pass the time away.
There are more things that I could tell you, but you see we are not allowed to tell anything that Uncle Sam says not to. I went up for first class seaman the other day; guess I made it all right.
I don’t know where Charlie Harrison is now. Do you? I guess he is near Paris; and Milton Scott, I have lost him again.
You all write me real soon.
From your son,
W. M. Bard,
U. S. Aviation Force, Pauillac Gironde, France
c/o New York Postmaster
NOTES: William Morton Bard was born in Greenville, Kentucky on April 21, 1892 and died on March 1, 1943. He enlisted in the navy on December 10, 1917 and was discharged on December 19, 1919. This partial letter was written to his mother Mrs. W. H. Bard of Bryant, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Pauillac Gironde, France, July 10.
Mrs. W. H. Bard.
Bryant, Ark., U. S. A.
Dear Homefolks:
I would like to hear from you. I wonder what you are doing these warm days. I am just fine; still in the Seaman Guard. I take a walk out into the country every time I get time, and I rather like the way the French do their work, but my they are so slow. I think it is about time that I was getting some mail from some one in the U. S. A., since I have been here most a month now.
We take short hikes every day or two. It is awfully warm here in the day and cool at night. The grapes will be getting ripe soon, I judge, and think there will be a good crop of them. How are crops there by now? They are fine over here.
I am not learning to speak French very fast. I find that it is not so easy to learn as Spanish. I am thinking of going to bed now, and you all are not up good, but nevertheless it’s that way.
I went to the Y. M. C. A. this evening to hear a fellow make a talk on the war. It was good. We have a show here in Pauillac every week. They are usually good. Some of them I have seen in the States, but I enjoy seeing them again. You know that we make fun out of everything we can, and that helps to pass the time away.
There are more things that I could tell you, but you see we are not allowed to tell anything that Uncle Sam says not to. I went up for first class seaman the other day; guess I made it all right.
I don’t know where Charlie Harrison is now. Do you? I guess he is near Paris; and Milton Scott, I have lost him again.
You all write me real soon.
From your son,
W. M. Bard,
U. S. Aviation Force, Pauillac Gironde, France
c/o New York Postmaster
NOTES: William Morton Bard was born in Greenville, Kentucky on April 21, 1892 and died on March 1, 1943. He enlisted in the navy on December 10, 1917 and was discharged on December 19, 1919. This partial letter was written to his mother Mrs. W. H. Bard of Bryant, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS