TRANSCRIBED FROM THE WASHINGTON TELEGRAPH OCTOBER 18, 1918 P. 3
Meyet, France, Sept. 7, 1918.
My Dear Mother and Father:
I am now in France in the beginning of the grape country (censored). I have been transferred to another branch of the service and will have to start at the bottom again. I am now in the Machine Gun Branch of the service, a higher branch of the service, but at present I am unable to tell you anything of it.
The country generally here is very pretty, and considering the necessary deteriation after four years of bloody conflict, it must have been a most beautiful country. The place I am now in is a very famous place in history; also the place of some great battles. There is a cathedral here hundreds of years old, also other buildings.
Since I have been in France I’ve been in the town where “Joan of Arc” was born, and altogether I’ve seen quite a few interesting sights.
Seems very strange to be in a country where the talk is different, but I’ll come out of it all right—“Jonah did.”
Will likely send a picture tomorrow. Will seem strange. I’m ____________________ Marion.
Give my love to all my friends. In closing, am hoping to hear from all of you real soon. Lots of love from your son and brother.
Marion
My address is “Pvt. Marion Conner, Co. A 323 Mch. Gun Btln., A. P. O. 762
NOTES: Private Conner is writing to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Conner of Washington, Arkansas. He was born in 1888 and died in 1928. He is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Meyet, France, Sept. 7, 1918.
My Dear Mother and Father:
I am now in France in the beginning of the grape country (censored). I have been transferred to another branch of the service and will have to start at the bottom again. I am now in the Machine Gun Branch of the service, a higher branch of the service, but at present I am unable to tell you anything of it.
The country generally here is very pretty, and considering the necessary deteriation after four years of bloody conflict, it must have been a most beautiful country. The place I am now in is a very famous place in history; also the place of some great battles. There is a cathedral here hundreds of years old, also other buildings.
Since I have been in France I’ve been in the town where “Joan of Arc” was born, and altogether I’ve seen quite a few interesting sights.
Seems very strange to be in a country where the talk is different, but I’ll come out of it all right—“Jonah did.”
Will likely send a picture tomorrow. Will seem strange. I’m ____________________ Marion.
Give my love to all my friends. In closing, am hoping to hear from all of you real soon. Lots of love from your son and brother.
Marion
My address is “Pvt. Marion Conner, Co. A 323 Mch. Gun Btln., A. P. O. 762
NOTES: Private Conner is writing to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Conner of Washington, Arkansas. He was born in 1888 and died in 1928. He is buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Hope, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON