TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD JANUARY 9, 1918 P. 1
“Somewhere,” Nov. 9, 1917.
Dear Mother and Father:
I have received several letters from you since I have been over here but have not had time to answer any of them and I guess you think that I have not received them. Don’t stop writing just because you do not hear from me, for I always receive the letters. It may take some time to reach me but I will get them some time.
In all your letters you seem to think we are having a hard time. Of course this is no afternoon tea but we are getting along all right. Just leave that to Uncle Sam. It is not like being in the United States. We have more rain here than it is possible to have there. It rains most every day but we have rubber boots and rain coats and don’t mind it much.
You asked in one letter if Henry Wenzel was on the same transport with me. If he was I never saw him and I believe I would have if he had been on board, because we were on the boat twenty-three days.
Roy Williams was on the boat but did not see much of him because he had to study all the way over. The last I saw of him was some place in England.
In your next letter tell me what company and regiment Jack McDonald is attached to. Sure would like to hear from some of the fellows.
One thing you can send me is some heavy woolen underwear. That is the hardest thing for us to get hold of and some woolen socks would help out a lot.
Thank Mrs. Friberg for the fruitcake she is going to send me and also tell --------------- to leave my girl alone or I will get on his neck when I get back.
It is getting too dark to write, so will have to stop.
As ever,
Gover
Address me
Corporal James G. Knight
Co. D, 2nd Engineers
American Expeditionary Forces
NOTES: Knight left Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on May 28. He trained in several camps arriving in England in October 1918. He was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Knight.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
“Somewhere,” Nov. 9, 1917.
Dear Mother and Father:
I have received several letters from you since I have been over here but have not had time to answer any of them and I guess you think that I have not received them. Don’t stop writing just because you do not hear from me, for I always receive the letters. It may take some time to reach me but I will get them some time.
In all your letters you seem to think we are having a hard time. Of course this is no afternoon tea but we are getting along all right. Just leave that to Uncle Sam. It is not like being in the United States. We have more rain here than it is possible to have there. It rains most every day but we have rubber boots and rain coats and don’t mind it much.
You asked in one letter if Henry Wenzel was on the same transport with me. If he was I never saw him and I believe I would have if he had been on board, because we were on the boat twenty-three days.
Roy Williams was on the boat but did not see much of him because he had to study all the way over. The last I saw of him was some place in England.
In your next letter tell me what company and regiment Jack McDonald is attached to. Sure would like to hear from some of the fellows.
One thing you can send me is some heavy woolen underwear. That is the hardest thing for us to get hold of and some woolen socks would help out a lot.
Thank Mrs. Friberg for the fruitcake she is going to send me and also tell --------------- to leave my girl alone or I will get on his neck when I get back.
It is getting too dark to write, so will have to stop.
As ever,
Gover
Address me
Corporal James G. Knight
Co. D, 2nd Engineers
American Expeditionary Forces
NOTES: Knight left Jefferson Barracks, Missouri on May 28. He trained in several camps arriving in England in October 1918. He was writing to his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Knight.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD