TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT NOVEMBER 13, 1918 P. 1
Dear Mother:
Will write in answer to your most welcome letter the first I have had since reaching France. You don’t know how good it was to hear from you and that you were alright. Am glad you are with Henrietta for the winter. Am glad too that the allotment has reached you and, hope it will come regular from now on. Am not in the squadron now, am on detachment service for a short while getting some technical training and expect to go back to my old company. Was glad to hear Owen was on this side of the pond, expect to meet him some of these days. I see quite a bunch of the boys as they come in and I may get a chance to run into Owen’s camp some of these days. Am to get a service leave next Monday and am going to Paris and am expecting to have a good time. Am tired tonight, we are all worked hard, and always ready to go to bed early and so that where I am going now. Will write again soon.
Your son,
John Pettet,
264 Area Squadron, American E.F.
NOTES: John Wesley Pettet was writing to his mother, Mary E. Pettet, who was living with her daughter Henrietta Lynn in Fort Worth, Texas. Pettet was born on August 19, 1894 in Newport, Arkansas and died on November 14, 1956. He is buried in the Augusta Memorial Park in Augusta, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Private serving in 264 Aero Sq. in World War I. He enlisted on March 14, 1918 and was discharged on March 26, 1919. He departed New York, NY on June 30, 1918 onboard the Mauretania. He was listed as a Private serving in Co. 6 June Automatic Replacement Draft Signal Corps Kelly Field. He departed Nazaire, France on February 20, 1919 onboad the Mexican. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on March 7, 1919. He was serving as a Private in the 264th Aero Squadron Air Service
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD
Dear Mother:
Will write in answer to your most welcome letter the first I have had since reaching France. You don’t know how good it was to hear from you and that you were alright. Am glad you are with Henrietta for the winter. Am glad too that the allotment has reached you and, hope it will come regular from now on. Am not in the squadron now, am on detachment service for a short while getting some technical training and expect to go back to my old company. Was glad to hear Owen was on this side of the pond, expect to meet him some of these days. I see quite a bunch of the boys as they come in and I may get a chance to run into Owen’s camp some of these days. Am to get a service leave next Monday and am going to Paris and am expecting to have a good time. Am tired tonight, we are all worked hard, and always ready to go to bed early and so that where I am going now. Will write again soon.
Your son,
John Pettet,
264 Area Squadron, American E.F.
NOTES: John Wesley Pettet was writing to his mother, Mary E. Pettet, who was living with her daughter Henrietta Lynn in Fort Worth, Texas. Pettet was born on August 19, 1894 in Newport, Arkansas and died on November 14, 1956. He is buried in the Augusta Memorial Park in Augusta, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as an Arkansas Private serving in 264 Aero Sq. in World War I. He enlisted on March 14, 1918 and was discharged on March 26, 1919. He departed New York, NY on June 30, 1918 onboard the Mauretania. He was listed as a Private serving in Co. 6 June Automatic Replacement Draft Signal Corps Kelly Field. He departed Nazaire, France on February 20, 1919 onboad the Mexican. He arrived in Hoboken, NJ on March 7, 1919. He was serving as a Private in the 264th Aero Squadron Air Service
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD