TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE MAY 27, 1918 P. 11
April 1, 1918.
Dear Father and All:
I have just read your letter of February 25; I think this is about the third one I have gotten from you. I wrote you about a week or 10 days ago. I was just getting over a spell of lagrippe. I feel very well at present, except I have a cough. It seems to take so long to get rid of a cold when you catch it, as I have said before, this is not a very delightful climate, the weather is so changeable.
As you can see from my address I have changed stations. I am instructor at this artillery school now, not quite as well fixed with respect to quarters, etc., as I was at the Army Heavy Artillery School, but it is very good.
You spoke of my great-great grandfather being from Paris, but you didn’t say whether Meachum or Gray. I don’t know how long I’ll be here, for we never know when or where we are going, but anyway, no “diff” where I go my mail will reach me eventually, provided you mail to the address below.
Love to all.
Master Gunner, Justin Gray, C.A.C., Headquarters 53rd Artillery,
C. A. C., A.E.F., France.
NOTES: This letter was originally printed in the Batesville Record dated May 9, 1918 and was written by Justin Gray to his father. Gray was born on July 27, 1884 in Hickory Valley, Independence County, Arkansas and died on February 15, 1957 in Brawly, California. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Brawly. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas, 2nd Lt serving in the 43 Art CAC during World War I.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
April 1, 1918.
Dear Father and All:
I have just read your letter of February 25; I think this is about the third one I have gotten from you. I wrote you about a week or 10 days ago. I was just getting over a spell of lagrippe. I feel very well at present, except I have a cough. It seems to take so long to get rid of a cold when you catch it, as I have said before, this is not a very delightful climate, the weather is so changeable.
As you can see from my address I have changed stations. I am instructor at this artillery school now, not quite as well fixed with respect to quarters, etc., as I was at the Army Heavy Artillery School, but it is very good.
You spoke of my great-great grandfather being from Paris, but you didn’t say whether Meachum or Gray. I don’t know how long I’ll be here, for we never know when or where we are going, but anyway, no “diff” where I go my mail will reach me eventually, provided you mail to the address below.
Love to all.
Master Gunner, Justin Gray, C.A.C., Headquarters 53rd Artillery,
C. A. C., A.E.F., France.
NOTES: This letter was originally printed in the Batesville Record dated May 9, 1918 and was written by Justin Gray to his father. Gray was born on July 27, 1884 in Hickory Valley, Independence County, Arkansas and died on February 15, 1957 in Brawly, California. He is buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Brawly. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas, 2nd Lt serving in the 43 Art CAC during World War I.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT