TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE MARCH 1, 1919 P. 8
Take my advice and don’t come to France unless you bring a boat. It rains continuously and is muddy all the time. You are in mud shoe deep all the time you are out of doors.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by William Claud Gold to his brother J. A. Gold of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was born on December 16, 1895 in Feenyville, Arkansas and died on December 19, 1922 in Pine Bluff. He died of tuberculosis which was believed to have been contracted while serving in the trenches in France. He is buried in the Palmyra Cemetery in Palmyra, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as Arkansas Pvt 1CL 114 INF. 29 Div.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
Take my advice and don’t come to France unless you bring a boat. It rains continuously and is muddy all the time. You are in mud shoe deep all the time you are out of doors.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by William Claud Gold to his brother J. A. Gold of Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was born on December 16, 1895 in Feenyville, Arkansas and died on December 19, 1922 in Pine Bluff. He died of tuberculosis which was believed to have been contracted while serving in the trenches in France. He is buried in the Palmyra Cemetery in Palmyra, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as Arkansas Pvt 1CL 114 INF. 29 Div.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT