TRANSCRIBED FROM THE LITTLE RIVER NEWS NOVEMBER 20, 1918 P. 1
Sunday, Sept. 22, France.
Der Mae:
I received your letter this morning and was glad to hear from you again. Yes, I received the articles all O.K., and must say they come in real good time too.
Please accept my thanks for them and I will try and return the favor some day. Say, those pictures were good only I have two or three like some of them. Nevertheless I was glad to get them.
You might have told me the boys name that has been over here fighting and now wanting to come back again. Take it from me he is a dam fool for wanting to come back to this God forsaken country. But he is right about rather being in the trenches than in camp for I had myself, only we are in open warfare now.
I guess you see in the paper that we made a drive the other day. Our division was in it and done some good work too.
The Boches are making an air raid this morning for I hear the explosions. We are back for a rest, and must say, we need it, too, especially a place where we can wash and take a bath.
I have gone high as three days lately without washing. I got a letter from Clora and she is teaching.
I got all my mail the other day, got 7 letters from Mamma. She said she had me a sweater. Tell her not to send it until I send for it, for we have to carry everything we own. If I don't send for it, keep until I come home and I will wear it then. I will close for the present.
Your Brother,
Henry C. Pauley,
60th Inf. Co. B., France..
NOTES: Henry Claude Pauley was writing to his sister Mae Pauley. Pauley enlisted in September 1917 and left for France in April 1918. He died of wounds received in action in September 1918. He was born on September 25, 1894 in Cerro Gordo, Arkansas and died on September 25, 1918 of wounds received in action. He is buried in the Saint Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial in Thiaucourt, France. He departed Hoboken, NJ on April 15, 1918 onboard the Calamares. He was listed as a Private serving in Co. B 60th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY PETER GEAN SOWELL
Sunday, Sept. 22, France.
Der Mae:
I received your letter this morning and was glad to hear from you again. Yes, I received the articles all O.K., and must say they come in real good time too.
Please accept my thanks for them and I will try and return the favor some day. Say, those pictures were good only I have two or three like some of them. Nevertheless I was glad to get them.
You might have told me the boys name that has been over here fighting and now wanting to come back again. Take it from me he is a dam fool for wanting to come back to this God forsaken country. But he is right about rather being in the trenches than in camp for I had myself, only we are in open warfare now.
I guess you see in the paper that we made a drive the other day. Our division was in it and done some good work too.
The Boches are making an air raid this morning for I hear the explosions. We are back for a rest, and must say, we need it, too, especially a place where we can wash and take a bath.
I have gone high as three days lately without washing. I got a letter from Clora and she is teaching.
I got all my mail the other day, got 7 letters from Mamma. She said she had me a sweater. Tell her not to send it until I send for it, for we have to carry everything we own. If I don't send for it, keep until I come home and I will wear it then. I will close for the present.
Your Brother,
Henry C. Pauley,
60th Inf. Co. B., France..
NOTES: Henry Claude Pauley was writing to his sister Mae Pauley. Pauley enlisted in September 1917 and left for France in April 1918. He died of wounds received in action in September 1918. He was born on September 25, 1894 in Cerro Gordo, Arkansas and died on September 25, 1918 of wounds received in action. He is buried in the Saint Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial in Thiaucourt, France. He departed Hoboken, NJ on April 15, 1918 onboard the Calamares. He was listed as a Private serving in Co. B 60th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY PETER GEAN SOWELL