TRANSCRIBED FROM THE WASHINGTON TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 4, 1918 P. 3
Chartenes, France,
Aug. 18, 1918
Mr. Claud Box.
Dear Brother:
How is everything in old McCaskill. guess everything is popping off with large meetings. I would sure like to be there and go to one or two and get in three or four watermelon patches, go home and get in pa’s orchard, then in ma’s bed—ha. But this is a great life if you don’t weaken. I received your letter dated July 11 yesterday I was at Bordeaux, on the south coast near Spain, when I wrote you the last time. I drove a truck from there thru Paris and on to Chateau Thierry and I have been driving ever since: but guess my part of the driving is over, although I have to go along just the same,
The future looks bright now, but the whiz-bing-bang and plunk of a boche shell darkens it slightly—ha.
No, mama, I have never been in the trench except to look for Sammies, and not been nearer than three miles of the front line trench. Seldom ever go nearer than five or six miles. We haul ammunition from the rail head to the dump. We are located at the Chartenes now, which is a few miles up the Marne river from Chaetau Thierry.
Must close, and write again soon.
As ever your brother,
Cpl, Jno, H, Box.
Truck Co., No. 2, 1st C. A.
NOTES: This letter was written by John Henry Box to his brother, Claud of McCaskill, Arkansas. He is writing from the Chateau Thierry area of France. Box was born in Hempstead County, Arkansas on October 10, 1895 and died in Union County, Arkansas on April 19, 1980. He is buried in the Arlington Memorial Park in El Dorado, Arkansas His military headstone identifies him as a Cp. In the U. S. Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY PAYTON DHOOGE
Chartenes, France,
Aug. 18, 1918
Mr. Claud Box.
Dear Brother:
How is everything in old McCaskill. guess everything is popping off with large meetings. I would sure like to be there and go to one or two and get in three or four watermelon patches, go home and get in pa’s orchard, then in ma’s bed—ha. But this is a great life if you don’t weaken. I received your letter dated July 11 yesterday I was at Bordeaux, on the south coast near Spain, when I wrote you the last time. I drove a truck from there thru Paris and on to Chateau Thierry and I have been driving ever since: but guess my part of the driving is over, although I have to go along just the same,
The future looks bright now, but the whiz-bing-bang and plunk of a boche shell darkens it slightly—ha.
No, mama, I have never been in the trench except to look for Sammies, and not been nearer than three miles of the front line trench. Seldom ever go nearer than five or six miles. We haul ammunition from the rail head to the dump. We are located at the Chartenes now, which is a few miles up the Marne river from Chaetau Thierry.
Must close, and write again soon.
As ever your brother,
Cpl, Jno, H, Box.
Truck Co., No. 2, 1st C. A.
NOTES: This letter was written by John Henry Box to his brother, Claud of McCaskill, Arkansas. He is writing from the Chateau Thierry area of France. Box was born in Hempstead County, Arkansas on October 10, 1895 and died in Union County, Arkansas on April 19, 1980. He is buried in the Arlington Memorial Park in El Dorado, Arkansas His military headstone identifies him as a Cp. In the U. S. Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY PAYTON DHOOGE