TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE JANUARY 6, 1919 P. 7
I have been from one end of the French front to the other and in quite a few of France’s largest cities, and I can’t say I have a hankering to stay here any longer than is absolutely necessary. The smallest town in old Arkansas has got it on all over them.
It was on the Verdun front that I got mine—third day out. Maybe I was lucky from what I can hear about the company. Anyway, I feel as good and able-bodied as ever.
We were up on Alsace front 47 days, in the front line, too. From there we went to St. Miehiel. This drive was a cinch. From there we went to Verdun and had a lot of fun there.
NOTES: Burl Chester Cheek was writing from a hospital to his mother, Mrs. M. A. Sullivan. He was recuperating from a wound. He was serving as a sergeant with the 130th MG BN. He was born on August 22, 1893 in Sugar Grove, Arkansas and died on October 22, 1977 in Dallas, Texas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I have been from one end of the French front to the other and in quite a few of France’s largest cities, and I can’t say I have a hankering to stay here any longer than is absolutely necessary. The smallest town in old Arkansas has got it on all over them.
It was on the Verdun front that I got mine—third day out. Maybe I was lucky from what I can hear about the company. Anyway, I feel as good and able-bodied as ever.
We were up on Alsace front 47 days, in the front line, too. From there we went to St. Miehiel. This drive was a cinch. From there we went to Verdun and had a lot of fun there.
NOTES: Burl Chester Cheek was writing from a hospital to his mother, Mrs. M. A. Sullivan. He was recuperating from a wound. He was serving as a sergeant with the 130th MG BN. He was born on August 22, 1893 in Sugar Grove, Arkansas and died on October 22, 1977 in Dallas, Texas.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT