TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DEQUEEN BEE JUNE 14, 1918 P. 2
In France.
Dear Mother:
I will try and write you a few lines to let you know that I am still alive. I suppose you think I could have written sooner, but since leaving the U. S. A. it has been one continual jump.
We landed in England and went by train inland. We were not there long before coming to France. They do most everything different in England to what we do, but it is one of the cleanest countries that I have seen so far, and roads, say, they have some roads here. It would be a pleasure to drive a car in that country. I would like to have had my motorcycle and nothing to do for about two months. It is warm here in the day time, but cold at night. I do not know how long I will be here, not long, I guess, as we have been on the jump ever since we left Camp Hancock. I sure will be glad when we get settled. I am tired of just getting settled and then moving again.
There is little that I can write about, as all letters are censored, and we are not allowed to write anything about camps, etc. We are not allowed to even tell what ship we came over on.
I am in fine health and have not been sick in a long time. I hope to stay will. I guess you are all well there.
Well, I will write as often as possible, which won’t be very often, as there is little to tell, but write often and send me the home papers.
Ernest.
NOTES: Written by Ernest Chandler.
TRANSCRIBED BY AMY MINGER
In France.
Dear Mother:
I will try and write you a few lines to let you know that I am still alive. I suppose you think I could have written sooner, but since leaving the U. S. A. it has been one continual jump.
We landed in England and went by train inland. We were not there long before coming to France. They do most everything different in England to what we do, but it is one of the cleanest countries that I have seen so far, and roads, say, they have some roads here. It would be a pleasure to drive a car in that country. I would like to have had my motorcycle and nothing to do for about two months. It is warm here in the day time, but cold at night. I do not know how long I will be here, not long, I guess, as we have been on the jump ever since we left Camp Hancock. I sure will be glad when we get settled. I am tired of just getting settled and then moving again.
There is little that I can write about, as all letters are censored, and we are not allowed to write anything about camps, etc. We are not allowed to even tell what ship we came over on.
I am in fine health and have not been sick in a long time. I hope to stay will. I guess you are all well there.
Well, I will write as often as possible, which won’t be very often, as there is little to tell, but write often and send me the home papers.
Ernest.
NOTES: Written by Ernest Chandler.
TRANSCRIBED BY AMY MINGER