TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT AUGUST 17, 1918 P. 4
Dear Sister:
I will write you a short letter now, after so long a time. I arrived safely in France, without any excitement on the way over. We are now drilling hard, and in the near future I think we will take our place on the firing line, as we have a good bunch in our battery and I am sure everyone will do his best to get in readiness for real action. But we may all want to get away from the front as bad as we want to get there. However, you know there is not much danger of a “Sammy” running, for they are not of that kind of stuff. I cannot tell you of my trip over or my stay in France, or very much of anything we do, for the censor is strict, and it’s little we can say. I cannot understand any of these people of course, and when they talk to us we stand around and act like a lost boy at a circus.
When you have finished this send it to my sister at Auvergne, as one letter will have to do for both of you. My paper is scarce and my money is more so.
NOTES: Joseph Nuckolls was born in Newport, Arkansas on September 18, 1894 and died in Memphis, Tennessee on July 6, 1957. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis. He departed from New York, NY on July 28, 1918 onboard the Justicia. He was listed as a Corporal serving in Battery E 342nd Field Artillery 89th Division. He was writing to his sister Stella Nuckolls.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGART
Dear Sister:
I will write you a short letter now, after so long a time. I arrived safely in France, without any excitement on the way over. We are now drilling hard, and in the near future I think we will take our place on the firing line, as we have a good bunch in our battery and I am sure everyone will do his best to get in readiness for real action. But we may all want to get away from the front as bad as we want to get there. However, you know there is not much danger of a “Sammy” running, for they are not of that kind of stuff. I cannot tell you of my trip over or my stay in France, or very much of anything we do, for the censor is strict, and it’s little we can say. I cannot understand any of these people of course, and when they talk to us we stand around and act like a lost boy at a circus.
When you have finished this send it to my sister at Auvergne, as one letter will have to do for both of you. My paper is scarce and my money is more so.
NOTES: Joseph Nuckolls was born in Newport, Arkansas on September 18, 1894 and died in Memphis, Tennessee on July 6, 1957. He is buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis. He departed from New York, NY on July 28, 1918 onboard the Justicia. He was listed as a Corporal serving in Battery E 342nd Field Artillery 89th Division. He was writing to his sister Stella Nuckolls.
TRANSCRIBED BY ADIN TYGART