TRANSCRIBED FROM THE PRESCOTT DAILY NEWS JULY 9, 1918 P. 1
Somewhere in France, June 5
Dear Mother:
How are all of you. I would have written sooner, but I just haven’t had the time. I haven’t received any mail from home yet, and I am getting anxious to hear from you. What is going on over there. We are having some fun over here about now. You will hear about it before this reaches you. Everybody is on the job. When I get back I will have a long story to tell you. One thing sure, the Huns know we are on the job. They say we are second class soldiers, but when we leave here they will know better. I would like to tell you a few things that have happened, but I can’t. We are having a good time, have all we want to eat and what else could we want in a war like this. The hum of airplane motors makes us want to go with them. Everybody is in good spirits and there is not much sickness here. I am getting fat as can be; I weigh more than I ever did before, and if I keep on I will weigh 250 pounds. I guess Sid is over here somewhere. I saw a boy in (CENSORED), a town a few days back, and he said the 305th was over here, or some of them anyway, and so I guess he is with them. Don’t worry about me for I am all O.K., not in any danger at all. If I should happen to fall it will be for a good cause, so God be with us until we reach Berlin. Write me every few days.
Robert Peachy
NOTES: Robert Peachey (newspaper misspelled his name) was born in Prescott, Arkansas on September 15, 1892 and died on December 12, 1971. He is buried in the De Ann Cemetery in Prescott. He enlisted on December 15, 1917 and was discharged on February 19, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
Somewhere in France, June 5
Dear Mother:
How are all of you. I would have written sooner, but I just haven’t had the time. I haven’t received any mail from home yet, and I am getting anxious to hear from you. What is going on over there. We are having some fun over here about now. You will hear about it before this reaches you. Everybody is on the job. When I get back I will have a long story to tell you. One thing sure, the Huns know we are on the job. They say we are second class soldiers, but when we leave here they will know better. I would like to tell you a few things that have happened, but I can’t. We are having a good time, have all we want to eat and what else could we want in a war like this. The hum of airplane motors makes us want to go with them. Everybody is in good spirits and there is not much sickness here. I am getting fat as can be; I weigh more than I ever did before, and if I keep on I will weigh 250 pounds. I guess Sid is over here somewhere. I saw a boy in (CENSORED), a town a few days back, and he said the 305th was over here, or some of them anyway, and so I guess he is with them. Don’t worry about me for I am all O.K., not in any danger at all. If I should happen to fall it will be for a good cause, so God be with us until we reach Berlin. Write me every few days.
Robert Peachy
NOTES: Robert Peachey (newspaper misspelled his name) was born in Prescott, Arkansas on September 15, 1892 and died on December 12, 1971. He is buried in the De Ann Cemetery in Prescott. He enlisted on December 15, 1917 and was discharged on February 19, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON