TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GREEN FOREST TRIBUNE JULY 12, 1918 P. 2
Dear Cousin:
Well, I am now “Over There.” Guess you will be very much surprised when you get this. I just received your letter.It was almost gone. It went to Camp Travis, Camp Dix N. J., then to A.E.F I was in A.E.F. two days about the time you were writing to me. That was in March.
Things are sure rushing over here. Everyone busy as can be. We are enjoying some fine weather in the spring.
I was transferred out of the Infantry to the 26th Engineers Water Supply regiment.
There are certainly a good many United States soldiers in France. I have been in several French cities and towns and could’t see anything much but soldiers. We are camped now in a nice place near a French city. The French people are sure glad to see the Sammies. We had a band concert up town the 30th of May. It was sure interesting to watch the native crowd around and cheer.
Well. Martha, if I could see you I could tell you much more than I am allowed to write, so will close for this time.
Your cousin,
Birchie Dooling,
B Co. .28th. Eng., A. E. F., U. S. A.
NOTES: Dooling was writing from France to his cousin in Texas, Mrs. Martha Patty McAlister. He was born in Carroll County Arkansas on August 25, 1888 and died in Fort Worth, Texas on November 11, 1975. He is buried in the Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army during WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
Dear Cousin:
Well, I am now “Over There.” Guess you will be very much surprised when you get this. I just received your letter.It was almost gone. It went to Camp Travis, Camp Dix N. J., then to A.E.F I was in A.E.F. two days about the time you were writing to me. That was in March.
Things are sure rushing over here. Everyone busy as can be. We are enjoying some fine weather in the spring.
I was transferred out of the Infantry to the 26th Engineers Water Supply regiment.
There are certainly a good many United States soldiers in France. I have been in several French cities and towns and could’t see anything much but soldiers. We are camped now in a nice place near a French city. The French people are sure glad to see the Sammies. We had a band concert up town the 30th of May. It was sure interesting to watch the native crowd around and cheer.
Well. Martha, if I could see you I could tell you much more than I am allowed to write, so will close for this time.
Your cousin,
Birchie Dooling,
B Co. .28th. Eng., A. E. F., U. S. A.
NOTES: Dooling was writing from France to his cousin in Texas, Mrs. Martha Patty McAlister. He was born in Carroll County Arkansas on August 25, 1888 and died in Fort Worth, Texas on November 11, 1975. He is buried in the Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth. His military headstone identifies him as a Pvt. in the US Army during WWI.
TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY