TRANSCRIBED FROM THE BENTON COURIER NOVEMBER 21, 1918 P. 7
Oct. 12, 1918.
Dear Father and Mother and All:
I will drop you all a few lines. I am all O.K. and am enjoying life fine. Well we have moved since I wrote to you last. We rode on the train for 62 hours, so you know that we are a long ways from where we landed at. We came through Paris on our way here. We are stationed here but we are not doing any butchering. They don’t know what a butcher Co. is over here. We sure are a lucky bunch of boys, and are located in a nice stone house, and have got fine beds and feather pillows. We sure are fixed up fine for the winter, and getting plenty to eat. The chances are we won’t have to move any more until the war is over. Well, Papa, we rode nearly all over France. The most of it sure is a pretty country, but they have got some curious ways. All the wagons have only two wheels with shafts. Well, Papa I sure have enjoyed my army life so far. I would not take anything for what I have seen. We are in a town that was taken from the Germans, but they are thirty miles from here now and still on the run. The boys from the front say the war is about to end.
Well I will close for this time and hope to hear from you all soon.
So bye bye to all,
PVT. JAMES D. CASH,
Butchery Co. 343,
A.P.O. 784 A.E.F. Via New York,
NOTES: James D. Cash was born on February 26, 1895 and died on October 19, 1986. He is buried in the Fairplay Cemetery in Benton, Arkansas. He was writing to his parents, Benjamin and Dalmanutha Cash. He enlisted on October 19, 1918 and was discharged on June 25, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Oct. 12, 1918.
Dear Father and Mother and All:
I will drop you all a few lines. I am all O.K. and am enjoying life fine. Well we have moved since I wrote to you last. We rode on the train for 62 hours, so you know that we are a long ways from where we landed at. We came through Paris on our way here. We are stationed here but we are not doing any butchering. They don’t know what a butcher Co. is over here. We sure are a lucky bunch of boys, and are located in a nice stone house, and have got fine beds and feather pillows. We sure are fixed up fine for the winter, and getting plenty to eat. The chances are we won’t have to move any more until the war is over. Well, Papa, we rode nearly all over France. The most of it sure is a pretty country, but they have got some curious ways. All the wagons have only two wheels with shafts. Well, Papa I sure have enjoyed my army life so far. I would not take anything for what I have seen. We are in a town that was taken from the Germans, but they are thirty miles from here now and still on the run. The boys from the front say the war is about to end.
Well I will close for this time and hope to hear from you all soon.
So bye bye to all,
PVT. JAMES D. CASH,
Butchery Co. 343,
A.P.O. 784 A.E.F. Via New York,
NOTES: James D. Cash was born on February 26, 1895 and died on October 19, 1986. He is buried in the Fairplay Cemetery in Benton, Arkansas. He was writing to his parents, Benjamin and Dalmanutha Cash. He enlisted on October 19, 1918 and was discharged on June 25, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD