TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PULASKIAN SEPTEMBER 27,1918 P. 1
Somewhere in France, Aug. 20, 1918
Dear Mother:
I will write you a few lines to tell you I arrived safely. I am doing very well and in the best of health. Mother, France is a great deal different than the U.S.A. The time is about six hours earlier. These French people are awfully good to us and seem as if they are glad to see us. I can’t talk to them, but have learned to say milk. It makes me thing of home when I get a cup of milk. This is a lonesome place on Sunday, but sometimes we have a little enjoyment.
This morning at one o’clock we had a midnight lunch. I had two quarts of milk and another boy had two eggs. We fried the eggs by the heat of two candles in a little village Somewhere in France. Tobacco is very scarce. Some of the boys offered $1 for a sack of Durham. I hope a year from today I will be at home with you. I will close.
Your Son,
Archie Couch
NOTES: Archie Henry Couch was born in Polk County Arkansas on April 11,1883 and died in 1952. He is buried in the New Zion Cemetery in Chandler, Oklahoma. He registered for the draft in Oklahoma. He was from Little Maumelle, Arkansas and was writing his mother Nancy.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Somewhere in France, Aug. 20, 1918
Dear Mother:
I will write you a few lines to tell you I arrived safely. I am doing very well and in the best of health. Mother, France is a great deal different than the U.S.A. The time is about six hours earlier. These French people are awfully good to us and seem as if they are glad to see us. I can’t talk to them, but have learned to say milk. It makes me thing of home when I get a cup of milk. This is a lonesome place on Sunday, but sometimes we have a little enjoyment.
This morning at one o’clock we had a midnight lunch. I had two quarts of milk and another boy had two eggs. We fried the eggs by the heat of two candles in a little village Somewhere in France. Tobacco is very scarce. Some of the boys offered $1 for a sack of Durham. I hope a year from today I will be at home with you. I will close.
Your Son,
Archie Couch
NOTES: Archie Henry Couch was born in Polk County Arkansas on April 11,1883 and died in 1952. He is buried in the New Zion Cemetery in Chandler, Oklahoma. He registered for the draft in Oklahoma. He was from Little Maumelle, Arkansas and was writing his mother Nancy.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON