TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PINE BLUFF DAILY GRAPHIC DECEMBER 28, 1917 P. 3
Camp Beauregard, La.
12-25-17.
Mrs. Jack Bernhardt,
Dear Madam:
Received the gift and the package with your name and address, so I wish to thank you for the same. It was the most appreciated and appropriate gift. I am very grateful to think that our American women are with us, without their good thoughts our hearts and bodies will not be nerved to do the best things.
For my part, it is a war of humanity, and protection of our women; as we know that if the Dutch would come over here and women would receive the same treatment that the French and Belgium women have received at the hands of the Germans.
Madam, I expect to leave for France about the last of February, and I shall save the gloves, the socks, the sweater, and the muffler, until I get “over there”. They are a perfect fit.
I wish to thank you again, and be sure I am very grateful, more so than I can tell you. I’m from Stuttgart and have no kin people that in the world that I know of.
Sergeant Epple,
Co. “A”—114th Signal Battalion.
NOTES: George Louis Epple was writing to Mrs. Jack Bernhardt of Pine Bluff. He was on born August 23, 1878 in Illinois and died on June 26, 1969 in Kerrville, Texas. He is buried in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Kerrville. He military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas, SFC serving in the U S Army during World War I.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
Camp Beauregard, La.
12-25-17.
Mrs. Jack Bernhardt,
Dear Madam:
Received the gift and the package with your name and address, so I wish to thank you for the same. It was the most appreciated and appropriate gift. I am very grateful to think that our American women are with us, without their good thoughts our hearts and bodies will not be nerved to do the best things.
For my part, it is a war of humanity, and protection of our women; as we know that if the Dutch would come over here and women would receive the same treatment that the French and Belgium women have received at the hands of the Germans.
Madam, I expect to leave for France about the last of February, and I shall save the gloves, the socks, the sweater, and the muffler, until I get “over there”. They are a perfect fit.
I wish to thank you again, and be sure I am very grateful, more so than I can tell you. I’m from Stuttgart and have no kin people that in the world that I know of.
Sergeant Epple,
Co. “A”—114th Signal Battalion.
NOTES: George Louis Epple was writing to Mrs. Jack Bernhardt of Pine Bluff. He was on born August 23, 1878 in Illinois and died on June 26, 1969 in Kerrville, Texas. He is buried in the Garden of Memories Cemetery in Kerrville. He military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas, SFC serving in the U S Army during World War I.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT