TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VAN BUREN COUNTY DEMOCRAT AUGUST 30, 1918 P. 1
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The Ambulance Company has had it pretty easy but our time is coming when we go over. I will keep the Boche pretty well on his toes, if he keeps us from rescuing many wounded Sammies.
Oh, say, how is the F.E. & C.U. of A. getting along. I sure would like to be at another meeting like they have at the parish Local. Well, by the time this letter reaches you I guess I will on my way to France. I belong to a company of college boys organized at Topeka, Kan., and they are a fine bunch of boys.
Yours very respectfully,
WILLIAM SIMS,
Ambulance Co., 347, Sanitary Train,
Camp Dix, N.J.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by William Anderson Sims who was born in Fairbanks/Damascus, Arkansas on March 5, 1889 and died on February 15, 1949. He is buried in the Bee Branch Cemetery in Bee Branch, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON
(SEVERAL LINES OF THE START OF THE LETTER ARE MISSING)
The Ambulance Company has had it pretty easy but our time is coming when we go over. I will keep the Boche pretty well on his toes, if he keeps us from rescuing many wounded Sammies.
Oh, say, how is the F.E. & C.U. of A. getting along. I sure would like to be at another meeting like they have at the parish Local. Well, by the time this letter reaches you I guess I will on my way to France. I belong to a company of college boys organized at Topeka, Kan., and they are a fine bunch of boys.
Yours very respectfully,
WILLIAM SIMS,
Ambulance Co., 347, Sanitary Train,
Camp Dix, N.J.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by William Anderson Sims who was born in Fairbanks/Damascus, Arkansas on March 5, 1889 and died on February 15, 1949. He is buried in the Bee Branch Cemetery in Bee Branch, Arkansas.
TRANSCRIBED BY MIKE POLSTON