TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT DECEMBER 5, 1918 P. 1
Somewhere in France, Nov. 2, 1918.
Dear Home Folks;
Will write you a few lines this morning. Have just got down to the office and it is just 7:30 and not good daylight yet but maybe you can read it.
I am a messenger in the 44th Brigade Headquarters office and have learned to run a motorcycle pretty good and will have one assigned to me pretty soon. I like my job fine and don’t have much to do. Am in the house most of the time but guess I won’t be when I get my cycle.
Erwin is getting along fine and is in the telephone detail. His work may be of use to him after the war.
If I ever get the chance I am going to Amiens and see if I can find where Charles Long is buried, but we are a long way from there now.
Uncle Sam sure believes in keeping his boys dry. I have a slicker that comes down to my shoe tops, a slicker suit (coat and pants), a pair of hip rubber boots, a leather coat with sheep skin lining, a steel helmet, two good uniforms, two wool sweaters, (but Uncle Sam didn’t give me them, they are from the Red Cross), 10 pair of wool socks, two wool helmets, two pairs of wristlets: these from the Red Cross also.
From the way everything looks, I think the war is about over. I don’t know anything only what is in the papers and you see the same things.
This country has some of the best roads I ever saw and they are all over this country the same way.
Must quit for this time. Love to all.
ARDEN
NOTES: This letter was written by Seth Arden Deason to his father H. W. Deason who lived near Lowell, Arkansas. Seth was born on July 23, 1898 in Lowell, Arkansas and died on September 25, 1978 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma City. He enlisted on April 12, 1917 and was discharged on May 1, 1919. He departed Hoboken, NJ on August 26, 1918 onboard the Agamemnon. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in Hq. 64 Field Artillery Brigade. He departed Brest, France on April 8, 1919 and arrived in Hoboken on April 17, 1919. He sailed onboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. He was listed as a Pvt. Hq. Det. 64 Field Artillery Brigade.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND
Somewhere in France, Nov. 2, 1918.
Dear Home Folks;
Will write you a few lines this morning. Have just got down to the office and it is just 7:30 and not good daylight yet but maybe you can read it.
I am a messenger in the 44th Brigade Headquarters office and have learned to run a motorcycle pretty good and will have one assigned to me pretty soon. I like my job fine and don’t have much to do. Am in the house most of the time but guess I won’t be when I get my cycle.
Erwin is getting along fine and is in the telephone detail. His work may be of use to him after the war.
If I ever get the chance I am going to Amiens and see if I can find where Charles Long is buried, but we are a long way from there now.
Uncle Sam sure believes in keeping his boys dry. I have a slicker that comes down to my shoe tops, a slicker suit (coat and pants), a pair of hip rubber boots, a leather coat with sheep skin lining, a steel helmet, two good uniforms, two wool sweaters, (but Uncle Sam didn’t give me them, they are from the Red Cross), 10 pair of wool socks, two wool helmets, two pairs of wristlets: these from the Red Cross also.
From the way everything looks, I think the war is about over. I don’t know anything only what is in the papers and you see the same things.
This country has some of the best roads I ever saw and they are all over this country the same way.
Must quit for this time. Love to all.
ARDEN
NOTES: This letter was written by Seth Arden Deason to his father H. W. Deason who lived near Lowell, Arkansas. Seth was born on July 23, 1898 in Lowell, Arkansas and died on September 25, 1978 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Oklahoma City. He enlisted on April 12, 1917 and was discharged on May 1, 1919. He departed Hoboken, NJ on August 26, 1918 onboard the Agamemnon. He was listed as a Pvt. serving in Hq. 64 Field Artillery Brigade. He departed Brest, France on April 8, 1919 and arrived in Hoboken on April 17, 1919. He sailed onboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. He was listed as a Pvt. Hq. Det. 64 Field Artillery Brigade.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLE MCLAY CLEVELAND