TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER OCTOBER 17, 1918 P. 1
Somewhere in France
Aug 30, ’18
Dear Sister Rose and folks
I am well and hope pou all are the same. I will tell you of the nice trip we had coming over.
We left Camp Mills, N Y, on---day of June and arrived in Europe in the latter end of the month andgot to France in July. We left Camp Funston about 1st of June in a bunch of Pullman cars and rode for three days till we came to Lang Island, N Y. We stayed there nearly 14 days and then went aboard ship for sunny France. The first day out I got a little sea sick but on the whole I enjoyed the trip fine. After we had been out near a week the alarm signal was given one night and we thot sure a submarine had us. But it was a false alarm. Well, we landed in France in July. The French are mighty fine people after you get acquainted with them. Well, we were put into a British rest camp for a couple of days and then to the interior, and now we are near the front line trenches. But don’t you worry for we are here to help win the war ond we are going to win it before coming back.
Some of the houses here must be three or four thousand years old and the war will to some extent help the people as they can build more modern house s after the war.
Well, I am getting to be real fat and lazy now, having so little to do but we expect to get busy soon and then it’s hell for the huns if we can over take them before running our legs off.
So I’ll close. With much love for you all.
As ever yours,
Edward Lorenzo.
NOTES: Edward is writing to his sister Miss Rose De Lorenzo. Therefore, his last name must be the same. They were an Italian immigrant family living near Waldron, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Somewhere in France
Aug 30, ’18
Dear Sister Rose and folks
I am well and hope pou all are the same. I will tell you of the nice trip we had coming over.
We left Camp Mills, N Y, on---day of June and arrived in Europe in the latter end of the month andgot to France in July. We left Camp Funston about 1st of June in a bunch of Pullman cars and rode for three days till we came to Lang Island, N Y. We stayed there nearly 14 days and then went aboard ship for sunny France. The first day out I got a little sea sick but on the whole I enjoyed the trip fine. After we had been out near a week the alarm signal was given one night and we thot sure a submarine had us. But it was a false alarm. Well, we landed in France in July. The French are mighty fine people after you get acquainted with them. Well, we were put into a British rest camp for a couple of days and then to the interior, and now we are near the front line trenches. But don’t you worry for we are here to help win the war ond we are going to win it before coming back.
Some of the houses here must be three or four thousand years old and the war will to some extent help the people as they can build more modern house s after the war.
Well, I am getting to be real fat and lazy now, having so little to do but we expect to get busy soon and then it’s hell for the huns if we can over take them before running our legs off.
So I’ll close. With much love for you all.
As ever yours,
Edward Lorenzo.
NOTES: Edward is writing to his sister Miss Rose De Lorenzo. Therefore, his last name must be the same. They were an Italian immigrant family living near Waldron, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS