TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DREW COUNTY ADVANCE JANUARY 7, 1919 P. 7
Dear Home Folks:
Will try and write you a few lines to let you know that I am Okeh. Hope this will find you all the same.
Well, I sure wish you could be here with me in this little Luxemburg town tonight so I could tell you of my experience in the war. Of course I have done my part but that isn't much for a soldier can't do too much for his country. There will be lots of soldiers telling of their experience on the front when they have never seen the front. I will be honest; I haven't really been over the top but once but have been only a few hundred yards in the rear, but that is much better than going over the top.
Well, I will start now and tell of my experience since the armistice was declared. We were just on the eve of going in the lines again after being out for a short rest. If it had lasted one day longer we would have been in again. I don't know whether you have paid any attention as to when this terrible thing ended. There are three elevens in a row--the eleventh day of the eleventh month and the eleventh hour. You can bet there was many a soul made happy on that date. Well, I might as well tell you where I was when it ended and where I am now and how I got here. We were at Bresville in France near Verdun on the 11th and there were many picked for this job which is a very interesting one. From Bresville we marched through several towns too numerous to mention to the fortified city of Langeuy, a distance of 47 kilometers, but of course we didn't do this in one day. And from there we marched in to Belgium, crossing the line to Aubange, hiking 20 kilos to Senlonge, staying over night there. We moved out the next morning, marching in to Luxemburg through towns on top of towns till we are now at Osmiter, a distance of 61 kilometers from Senlonge and about 38 kilos from the capitol of Luxemburg and just a short distance from the German border. I guess if nothing happens I will take a run down to the city of Luxemburg day after tomorrow as they are letting us soldiers go down to see the old city and its many historic places. Well, I will have to close, as I have told you all for the present. Save me some sweet potatoes and good old country sausage till I come.
Corp. John H. Glennon
Co. G, 126 Inf., A. P. O. 734, A. E. F.
NOTES: John H. Glennon was born on January 10, 1896 and died on December 27, 1940. He is buried in the Ozment Valley Cemetery in Wilmar, Arkansas. He departed from Hoboken, NJ on March 6, 1918 on ship 55. He was listed as serving in the Camp Pike Replacement Draft Infantry. Also served in Co. G, 126th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Dear Home Folks:
Will try and write you a few lines to let you know that I am Okeh. Hope this will find you all the same.
Well, I sure wish you could be here with me in this little Luxemburg town tonight so I could tell you of my experience in the war. Of course I have done my part but that isn't much for a soldier can't do too much for his country. There will be lots of soldiers telling of their experience on the front when they have never seen the front. I will be honest; I haven't really been over the top but once but have been only a few hundred yards in the rear, but that is much better than going over the top.
Well, I will start now and tell of my experience since the armistice was declared. We were just on the eve of going in the lines again after being out for a short rest. If it had lasted one day longer we would have been in again. I don't know whether you have paid any attention as to when this terrible thing ended. There are three elevens in a row--the eleventh day of the eleventh month and the eleventh hour. You can bet there was many a soul made happy on that date. Well, I might as well tell you where I was when it ended and where I am now and how I got here. We were at Bresville in France near Verdun on the 11th and there were many picked for this job which is a very interesting one. From Bresville we marched through several towns too numerous to mention to the fortified city of Langeuy, a distance of 47 kilometers, but of course we didn't do this in one day. And from there we marched in to Belgium, crossing the line to Aubange, hiking 20 kilos to Senlonge, staying over night there. We moved out the next morning, marching in to Luxemburg through towns on top of towns till we are now at Osmiter, a distance of 61 kilometers from Senlonge and about 38 kilos from the capitol of Luxemburg and just a short distance from the German border. I guess if nothing happens I will take a run down to the city of Luxemburg day after tomorrow as they are letting us soldiers go down to see the old city and its many historic places. Well, I will have to close, as I have told you all for the present. Save me some sweet potatoes and good old country sausage till I come.
Corp. John H. Glennon
Co. G, 126 Inf., A. P. O. 734, A. E. F.
NOTES: John H. Glennon was born on January 10, 1896 and died on December 27, 1940. He is buried in the Ozment Valley Cemetery in Wilmar, Arkansas. He departed from Hoboken, NJ on March 6, 1918 on ship 55. He was listed as serving in the Camp Pike Replacement Draft Infantry. Also served in Co. G, 126th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD