TRANSCRIBED FROM THE POCAHONTAS STAR HERALD SEPTEMBE 6, 1918 P. 3
“Somewhere in France,” July 28.
Dear mother:
I will try and write you a few lines to day. I am in the hospital with my leg broken but am getting along fine. I am getting plenty to eat and good treatment.
I was in both drives on the 18th and got shot in the last drive, I got two bullets through the left leg. Believe me, but I got some of the Dutchmen before they got me.
Well I have seen some great war since I have been over here but I think it will soon be over for we have them on the run. We got 17,000 prisoners that day and have been getting them every day since.
How are you and papa? Well, I hope. Don’t worry about me for I am in a good place and expected to go to a better one in a few days. The French sure are good to me and lots of girls come to see me and you know I like that. I can’t talk much French but I make signs and we have a good time. They bring me cigarettes and books and papers, too. I think I will get out of here in a few days and then I will have a good time for three or four months and by that time the war will be over. I sure was lucky for there were men killed on both sides of me and I got out with just my leg broken. An American woman doctor dressed my wound, she is some doctor, too. She is here with me now.
As I don’t have a very good place to write I will close and write some more soon.
Your son,
Fred Luter
NOTES: Luter was born March 3, 1892 in Cottage Grove, Tennessee and died in Memphis, Tennessee on September 15, 1960. He is buried in the Hite Cemetery in Biggers, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Pvt. serving in the 5th Marines, USMC. It also identifies him as a Purple Heart recipient.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
“Somewhere in France,” July 28.
Dear mother:
I will try and write you a few lines to day. I am in the hospital with my leg broken but am getting along fine. I am getting plenty to eat and good treatment.
I was in both drives on the 18th and got shot in the last drive, I got two bullets through the left leg. Believe me, but I got some of the Dutchmen before they got me.
Well I have seen some great war since I have been over here but I think it will soon be over for we have them on the run. We got 17,000 prisoners that day and have been getting them every day since.
How are you and papa? Well, I hope. Don’t worry about me for I am in a good place and expected to go to a better one in a few days. The French sure are good to me and lots of girls come to see me and you know I like that. I can’t talk much French but I make signs and we have a good time. They bring me cigarettes and books and papers, too. I think I will get out of here in a few days and then I will have a good time for three or four months and by that time the war will be over. I sure was lucky for there were men killed on both sides of me and I got out with just my leg broken. An American woman doctor dressed my wound, she is some doctor, too. She is here with me now.
As I don’t have a very good place to write I will close and write some more soon.
Your son,
Fred Luter
NOTES: Luter was born March 3, 1892 in Cottage Grove, Tennessee and died in Memphis, Tennessee on September 15, 1960. He is buried in the Hite Cemetery in Biggers, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Pvt. serving in the 5th Marines, USMC. It also identifies him as a Purple Heart recipient.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD