TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ASHLEY COUNTY EAGLE AUGUST 29, 1918 P. 1
Dear Wm:
Just dropping you a few lines to let you know I was wounded on July 15th at Chateau Thiery, and I am now at a U.S. Army hospital.
Would have written sooner to you, but could not write until this morning.
This sure is a good place as we get everything we want here, and you haven’t a kick coming.
It sure was a fight up there; the Huns put over on us a ten hour barrage and it was just like rain, but we got away at that.
There were about five Germans to one American soldier, but when we got through there wasn’t a German left.
Will close now hoping to get an answer from you soon.
Marvin Deal,
Base Hospital No. 34,
Amer. Ex Force, France
NOTES: Marvin Joseph Deal, who was one of the first Ashley County men to volunteer is writing from France on July 22. He was nineteen years old when he enlisted. He was born on January 14, 1897 and died on June 3, 1981. He is buried in the Pinewood Memorial Cemetery in Crossett, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY STEPHANE LECOINTE
Dear Wm:
Just dropping you a few lines to let you know I was wounded on July 15th at Chateau Thiery, and I am now at a U.S. Army hospital.
Would have written sooner to you, but could not write until this morning.
This sure is a good place as we get everything we want here, and you haven’t a kick coming.
It sure was a fight up there; the Huns put over on us a ten hour barrage and it was just like rain, but we got away at that.
There were about five Germans to one American soldier, but when we got through there wasn’t a German left.
Will close now hoping to get an answer from you soon.
Marvin Deal,
Base Hospital No. 34,
Amer. Ex Force, France
NOTES: Marvin Joseph Deal, who was one of the first Ashley County men to volunteer is writing from France on July 22. He was nineteen years old when he enlisted. He was born on January 14, 1897 and died on June 3, 1981. He is buried in the Pinewood Memorial Cemetery in Crossett, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY STEPHANE LECOINTE