TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MELBOURNE TIMES DECEMBER 6, 1918 P. 2
Somewhere in France,
August 9, 1918.
Mr. Clarence Sims,
Dear Brother:
I will write you a few lines this evening. How are you all at this time. This leaves me well and I hope it will find you the same and having a good time.
Say, how is everything at home? Fine I guess. What are you doing these days?
I have been on the front for about one month. That is the reason that I haven’t wrote you sooner.
I guess you head about the big drive that was made the 14th of July? I was in that drive and since. Have been in several battles but have had good luck-- haven’t got a scratch yet. Think I have been lucky We are now back in a rest camp enjoying good rest.
Say, I guess you are having a big time going to big meetings stealing watermelons. ha! ha!
Well, I will close and write a few lines to mama.
Gus Sims,
Co. D., 38 Inf. A.E.F., A.P.O. No. 740.
NOTES: Gus Thias Sims was born on March 4, 1896 at Sage, Arkansas and died on January 13, 1959. He is buried in the Barnes Cemetery in Batesville, Arkansas. He enlisted on September 18, 1917 and was discharged on September 2, 1919. He departed from Hoboken, NJ on June 7, 1918 onboard the Manchuria. He was listed as a Private in Co. 4, Camp Beauregard Automatic Replacement Draft Infantry. 153 Infantry. He returned from Brest, France departing on August 11, 1919 onboard the Matsonia. He arrived in Hoboken on August 20, 1919. He was listed as a Private in Co. D, 38th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Somewhere in France,
August 9, 1918.
Mr. Clarence Sims,
Dear Brother:
I will write you a few lines this evening. How are you all at this time. This leaves me well and I hope it will find you the same and having a good time.
Say, how is everything at home? Fine I guess. What are you doing these days?
I have been on the front for about one month. That is the reason that I haven’t wrote you sooner.
I guess you head about the big drive that was made the 14th of July? I was in that drive and since. Have been in several battles but have had good luck-- haven’t got a scratch yet. Think I have been lucky We are now back in a rest camp enjoying good rest.
Say, I guess you are having a big time going to big meetings stealing watermelons. ha! ha!
Well, I will close and write a few lines to mama.
Gus Sims,
Co. D., 38 Inf. A.E.F., A.P.O. No. 740.
NOTES: Gus Thias Sims was born on March 4, 1896 at Sage, Arkansas and died on January 13, 1959. He is buried in the Barnes Cemetery in Batesville, Arkansas. He enlisted on September 18, 1917 and was discharged on September 2, 1919. He departed from Hoboken, NJ on June 7, 1918 onboard the Manchuria. He was listed as a Private in Co. 4, Camp Beauregard Automatic Replacement Draft Infantry. 153 Infantry. He returned from Brest, France departing on August 11, 1919 onboard the Matsonia. He arrived in Hoboken on August 20, 1919. He was listed as a Private in Co. D, 38th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD