TRANSCRIBDED FROM THE POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD JULY 5, 1918 P. 5
June 11, 1918
Dear Brother Curtis:
Will write you a few lines to let you know I am well. Have been wounded in right shoulder with a machine gun bullet but am getting along fine. Am in Base hospital No. 27. Was wounded June 6, at 5 0’clock p. m. The bullet went in muscle of right shoulder and came out just below shoulder blade in back, but did not break any bones. So I can use it pretty well now.
Would have written you sooner, but haven’t had time; have been traveling almost all the time since. I haven’t heard from you since March, but have been transfered [SIC] so many times, is the reason, I guess.
We only had five men left in our platoon, but very few killed, the most being slightly wounded. We sure gave the Huns fits, though. Say, Claude is in the division that I am in, but haven’t seen him. How is everybody at home? I gave your name to a Red Cross man in Paris and he said he would write you so I guess you have heard before now.
Write soon.
Your loving bud,
Clyde.
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TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY
June 11, 1918
Dear Brother Curtis:
Will write you a few lines to let you know I am well. Have been wounded in right shoulder with a machine gun bullet but am getting along fine. Am in Base hospital No. 27. Was wounded June 6, at 5 0’clock p. m. The bullet went in muscle of right shoulder and came out just below shoulder blade in back, but did not break any bones. So I can use it pretty well now.
Would have written you sooner, but haven’t had time; have been traveling almost all the time since. I haven’t heard from you since March, but have been transfered [SIC] so many times, is the reason, I guess.
We only had five men left in our platoon, but very few killed, the most being slightly wounded. We sure gave the Huns fits, though. Say, Claude is in the division that I am in, but haven’t seen him. How is everybody at home? I gave your name to a Red Cross man in Paris and he said he would write you so I guess you have heard before now.
Write soon.
Your loving bud,
Clyde.
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TRANSCRIBED BY LARAE SHURLEY