TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT NOVEMBER 2, 1918 P. 14
I have a very good billet with an old French couple. It is a four-story stone house on the bank of a little stream. The house is hundreds of years old. Only a few of the rooms are furnished, the most of the furniture having been moved to the hospitals, so the madam told me in her broken English. She has lost one son and has another at the front.
I spent some time in England en route and enjoyed myself very much. It is a beautiful country with the best cultivated land I ever saw, even surpassing France, and I have been over several hundred miles of this country. Without saying anything disparaging of the English, I think more of the French. They are a quiet, patient, gritty people—I have talked to many and all are alike. Not a complaint anywhere. That is where they are ahead of the English and even our own people. They all give the American a hearty welcome and they are delighted at Pershing’s big drive.
My trip to England and here had some exciting incidents that will have to remain untold until I get back.
NOTES: Captain George Leonard Mallory was writing to Gay W. Caron of Little Rock, Arkansas. The newspaper added this note, “The letter was written September 20 but had only been recently received.” Mallory was a lawyer for the Aetna Life Insurance company in Little Rock before enlisting. He was born on March 25, 1879 in Ontario, Canada and died on April 28, 1961. He is buried in the Roselawn Memorial Park in little rock. He served with the 312th Train Headquarters and M.P.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I have a very good billet with an old French couple. It is a four-story stone house on the bank of a little stream. The house is hundreds of years old. Only a few of the rooms are furnished, the most of the furniture having been moved to the hospitals, so the madam told me in her broken English. She has lost one son and has another at the front.
I spent some time in England en route and enjoyed myself very much. It is a beautiful country with the best cultivated land I ever saw, even surpassing France, and I have been over several hundred miles of this country. Without saying anything disparaging of the English, I think more of the French. They are a quiet, patient, gritty people—I have talked to many and all are alike. Not a complaint anywhere. That is where they are ahead of the English and even our own people. They all give the American a hearty welcome and they are delighted at Pershing’s big drive.
My trip to England and here had some exciting incidents that will have to remain untold until I get back.
NOTES: Captain George Leonard Mallory was writing to Gay W. Caron of Little Rock, Arkansas. The newspaper added this note, “The letter was written September 20 but had only been recently received.” Mallory was a lawyer for the Aetna Life Insurance company in Little Rock before enlisting. He was born on March 25, 1879 in Ontario, Canada and died on April 28, 1961. He is buried in the Roselawn Memorial Park in little rock. He served with the 312th Train Headquarters and M.P.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT