TRANSCRIBED FROM THE COURIER INDEX JUEN 6, 1919 P. 12
In the Commercial Appeal of Wednesday appeared the following
American E.F., A.P O. 777 Pommern, Germany, May 13, 1919
To the Commercial Appeal:
Having been a subscriber to your paper before my entry into the army I take this opportunity of corresponding with a few of my former friends through the medium of your paper.
My home address is Moro, Ark. I sailed from New York on the morning of July 6, 1918, and after 11 days out landed at Liverpool, England. From there we entrained for a camp named Winnell Downe near Winchester, England. After a few days' rest there we entrained again and sailed from Winchester, England, across the channel, landing at Le Havre, France. From there we went to a town in France by the name of Aubipierre.
After a short time spent in training there we went into the trenches in Alsace, then a part of Germany, and got our first baptism under shell fire. We were in this sector something over a month, known as the Geradiner sector in the Vosges Mountains. We left there, just when I don't remember, but after a short rest we started for another part of the front. Our destination proved to be the Argonne-Meuse. We were in that sector from November 1 to 11. When we started for Verdun. But before we got there the armistice was signed, and that put an end to active campaigning, except hiking, which still kept good.
We spent most of the winter in charming France, landed here in Pommern, Germany about May This leaves me enjoying good health Will close. Yours for success
CORP. H. M. BICKERSTAFF.
NOTES: Herman Monroe Bickerstaff was born near Moro, Arkansas on August 21, 1893 and died on February 7, 1978. He is buried in the Sunset Memorial Park in Walnut Corner, in Phillips County, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Corp. serving in the US Army during World War 1. He enlisted on August 24, 1917 and was discharged on June 25, 1919. He departed Brest, France on June 5, 1919 onboard the Leviathan. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on June 12, 1919. He was serving as a Corp. in Co K 52nd Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY PETER SOWELL
In the Commercial Appeal of Wednesday appeared the following
American E.F., A.P O. 777 Pommern, Germany, May 13, 1919
To the Commercial Appeal:
Having been a subscriber to your paper before my entry into the army I take this opportunity of corresponding with a few of my former friends through the medium of your paper.
My home address is Moro, Ark. I sailed from New York on the morning of July 6, 1918, and after 11 days out landed at Liverpool, England. From there we entrained for a camp named Winnell Downe near Winchester, England. After a few days' rest there we entrained again and sailed from Winchester, England, across the channel, landing at Le Havre, France. From there we went to a town in France by the name of Aubipierre.
After a short time spent in training there we went into the trenches in Alsace, then a part of Germany, and got our first baptism under shell fire. We were in this sector something over a month, known as the Geradiner sector in the Vosges Mountains. We left there, just when I don't remember, but after a short rest we started for another part of the front. Our destination proved to be the Argonne-Meuse. We were in that sector from November 1 to 11. When we started for Verdun. But before we got there the armistice was signed, and that put an end to active campaigning, except hiking, which still kept good.
We spent most of the winter in charming France, landed here in Pommern, Germany about May This leaves me enjoying good health Will close. Yours for success
CORP. H. M. BICKERSTAFF.
NOTES: Herman Monroe Bickerstaff was born near Moro, Arkansas on August 21, 1893 and died on February 7, 1978. He is buried in the Sunset Memorial Park in Walnut Corner, in Phillips County, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a Corp. serving in the US Army during World War 1. He enlisted on August 24, 1917 and was discharged on June 25, 1919. He departed Brest, France on June 5, 1919 onboard the Leviathan. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on June 12, 1919. He was serving as a Corp. in Co K 52nd Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY PETER SOWELL