TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ROGERS DEMOCRAT OCTOBER 10, 1918 P. 1
Somewhere in France.
Dear Mother:
Will drop you a few lines and let you know that we have landed safely on this side. Had a fine trip coming over. Didn’t get to see any submarines.
I am well and well contented with this place over here. It is very beautiful over on this side and not quite so hot as in the States. Nights are so cool that they make you feel like you wanted to hunt your blankets.
Hope you are well and getting some of that good rain that we got while coming over; we sure did get enough of it for it rained almost every day that we were on the boat.
They have some funny things over here; they have the funniest looking trains that you ever saw. The coaches are just about one-third as long as ours and the freight cars are about like our wheel barrows. They will carry only ten tons and the engines you could put in the firebox of one of our engines. And they have things fixed up pretty nice for us over here; there is a Y.M C.A. and canteen in every camp and we don’t have very much trouble in getting anything that we want.
Has Omer got into training yet? Tell him that if he wants to come over here he had better hurry up for we are not going to stay over here forever; we want to get back in time to help you folks eat Christmas dinner.
I guess everybody there is harvesting as fast as they can; they were harvesting in England as we came across there and they had some fine looking grain. The women were working the same as the men and things seemed to be going as good as could be.
Guess I will close and get a little sleep for I am tired after so long a trip. From your loving son.
DELBERT
NOTES: This letter was written by Delbert Shely Elliott to his mother Mrs. W. C. Elliott of Rt. 2 near Rogers, Arkansas. He was born on May 9, 1900 in Lowell, Arkansas and died on December 11, 1943 in Carthage, Missouri. He is buried in the Park Cemetery in Carthage. He departed New York, NY on August 8, 1918 onboard the Empress of Russia. He was listed as Pvt. serving in Mobile Laundry Unit 318. He departed Brest, France on July 13, 1919 onboard the America. He was listed as a Pfc. 331 M.L. Detachment #370 Brest.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Somewhere in France.
Dear Mother:
Will drop you a few lines and let you know that we have landed safely on this side. Had a fine trip coming over. Didn’t get to see any submarines.
I am well and well contented with this place over here. It is very beautiful over on this side and not quite so hot as in the States. Nights are so cool that they make you feel like you wanted to hunt your blankets.
Hope you are well and getting some of that good rain that we got while coming over; we sure did get enough of it for it rained almost every day that we were on the boat.
They have some funny things over here; they have the funniest looking trains that you ever saw. The coaches are just about one-third as long as ours and the freight cars are about like our wheel barrows. They will carry only ten tons and the engines you could put in the firebox of one of our engines. And they have things fixed up pretty nice for us over here; there is a Y.M C.A. and canteen in every camp and we don’t have very much trouble in getting anything that we want.
Has Omer got into training yet? Tell him that if he wants to come over here he had better hurry up for we are not going to stay over here forever; we want to get back in time to help you folks eat Christmas dinner.
I guess everybody there is harvesting as fast as they can; they were harvesting in England as we came across there and they had some fine looking grain. The women were working the same as the men and things seemed to be going as good as could be.
Guess I will close and get a little sleep for I am tired after so long a trip. From your loving son.
DELBERT
NOTES: This letter was written by Delbert Shely Elliott to his mother Mrs. W. C. Elliott of Rt. 2 near Rogers, Arkansas. He was born on May 9, 1900 in Lowell, Arkansas and died on December 11, 1943 in Carthage, Missouri. He is buried in the Park Cemetery in Carthage. He departed New York, NY on August 8, 1918 onboard the Empress of Russia. He was listed as Pvt. serving in Mobile Laundry Unit 318. He departed Brest, France on July 13, 1919 onboard the America. He was listed as a Pfc. 331 M.L. Detachment #370 Brest.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD