TRANSCRIBED FROM THE GRAND PRAIRIE NEWS OCTOBER 24, 1918 P. 6
Sept. 19, 1918.
Dear Folks at Home:
I have only received one letter from you, so far. Some of the boys have received mail that was written the 25th of August. May be some of the mail has been delayed.
It has been raining again today. It very seldom misses a day.
I was in kind of a tight place the other day. I was transferred to the postal department. I would still have been with the 39th Division, but I would have been with Division headquarters. The Col. wouldn’t stand for the transfer, so I don’t suppose I will have to move, in fact I am sure I won’t have to go.
Most all the boys have gone to town. I don’t go very often, as there isn’t anything to go for.
We sure get some dandy reports on the progress of the war. I don’t see that it can last much longer. I hope not anyway.
I am getting along as well as could be expected. We are working a little harder now than we used to, but we can stand it, as it isn’t so hard that we can’t stand it.
Well, folks, I will close for tonight, sending you all the love and kisses in the world. Hoping that this finds you as well as it leaves me.
From your loving son,
Gus.
Corp. Aug. Hoevels, Jr.
Band 154 Inf. Reg.
American Expeditionary Forces. A. P. O. 904.
NOTES: August Hoevels, Jr. was born in Illinois on February 12, 1894 and died on March 9, 1933. He is buried in the Lone Tree Cemetery in Stuttgart, Arkansas. At the time of his enlistment he was living in Stuttgart. He departed for Europe from Newport News, Virginia on August 6, 1918 onboard the Zeelandia. He was a Band Corp serving in the Hdq. Company of the 154th Infantry, 39th Division. When he returned to the US in May 1919 onboard the Troy he was servings as a Band Corp. in the Hdq. Company of the 141st Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Sept. 19, 1918.
Dear Folks at Home:
I have only received one letter from you, so far. Some of the boys have received mail that was written the 25th of August. May be some of the mail has been delayed.
It has been raining again today. It very seldom misses a day.
I was in kind of a tight place the other day. I was transferred to the postal department. I would still have been with the 39th Division, but I would have been with Division headquarters. The Col. wouldn’t stand for the transfer, so I don’t suppose I will have to move, in fact I am sure I won’t have to go.
Most all the boys have gone to town. I don’t go very often, as there isn’t anything to go for.
We sure get some dandy reports on the progress of the war. I don’t see that it can last much longer. I hope not anyway.
I am getting along as well as could be expected. We are working a little harder now than we used to, but we can stand it, as it isn’t so hard that we can’t stand it.
Well, folks, I will close for tonight, sending you all the love and kisses in the world. Hoping that this finds you as well as it leaves me.
From your loving son,
Gus.
Corp. Aug. Hoevels, Jr.
Band 154 Inf. Reg.
American Expeditionary Forces. A. P. O. 904.
NOTES: August Hoevels, Jr. was born in Illinois on February 12, 1894 and died on March 9, 1933. He is buried in the Lone Tree Cemetery in Stuttgart, Arkansas. At the time of his enlistment he was living in Stuttgart. He departed for Europe from Newport News, Virginia on August 6, 1918 onboard the Zeelandia. He was a Band Corp serving in the Hdq. Company of the 154th Infantry, 39th Division. When he returned to the US in May 1919 onboard the Troy he was servings as a Band Corp. in the Hdq. Company of the 141st Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS