TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SPRINGDALE NEWS NOVEMBER 22, 1918 P. 3
Sept. 17, 1918.
Dear Vera:
I received two letters from you since I wrote you last, so I will try to answer. Paper is awful scarce here and it is hard to get hold of, so I may not write very often but will write as often as I can. I have been on the front since Aug. 24 and I am still feeling good and hope to continue that way. I sure will have some to tell you when I get back, it is not as bad as you might imagine I doubt if I will ever run across Tom over here but I hope I will. I won't be put back in our old regiment. I haven't seen any very hot weather since I left La., but is sure was hot when I left there. You were asking if there was any grapes over here, there is more grapes than any thing else, and all kinds of wine but I haven't tried any of it yet. The grapes are just getting ripe now, they are late but everything is later over here than in the U. S. Part of the people work oxen, I guess the war has got most of their horses. I have traveled over a right smart of France. It is a pretty country, all the houses are stone or cement, you hardly ever see a frame building. One good thing about this country, they have good roads. I think the Ritter boys are close but I haven't seen them for some time.
Vera if you want to and it isn't too much trouble send me the Springdale News, but the others I haven't the time to read. Well, I guess I had better close for this time. Don't worry about me for I think I will make it all right.
Your brother,
Clarence.
Bat. E. 320 F.A.A.P.O., A.E.F.
NOTES: Clarence Venable Steele was born in Elm Springs, Arkansas on January 17, 1894 and died on September 23, 1977. He is buried in the Elm Springs Cemetery at Elm Springs. He departed for France from New York on July 28, 1918 onboard the Saxon. He was listed as a Private serving in Battery A, Camp Beauregard FA June Automatic Replacement Draft. He returned from Bordeaux, France departing on April 26, 1919 onboard the Kentuckian. He arrived in the US on May 9, 1919. Steele was writing his sister Vera Smith of Elm Springs, Arkansas. He had enlisted with Co. A at Springdale, Arkansas in June 1917. He volunteered for immediate service overseas while at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. He arrived at the front on August 24, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD
Sept. 17, 1918.
Dear Vera:
I received two letters from you since I wrote you last, so I will try to answer. Paper is awful scarce here and it is hard to get hold of, so I may not write very often but will write as often as I can. I have been on the front since Aug. 24 and I am still feeling good and hope to continue that way. I sure will have some to tell you when I get back, it is not as bad as you might imagine I doubt if I will ever run across Tom over here but I hope I will. I won't be put back in our old regiment. I haven't seen any very hot weather since I left La., but is sure was hot when I left there. You were asking if there was any grapes over here, there is more grapes than any thing else, and all kinds of wine but I haven't tried any of it yet. The grapes are just getting ripe now, they are late but everything is later over here than in the U. S. Part of the people work oxen, I guess the war has got most of their horses. I have traveled over a right smart of France. It is a pretty country, all the houses are stone or cement, you hardly ever see a frame building. One good thing about this country, they have good roads. I think the Ritter boys are close but I haven't seen them for some time.
Vera if you want to and it isn't too much trouble send me the Springdale News, but the others I haven't the time to read. Well, I guess I had better close for this time. Don't worry about me for I think I will make it all right.
Your brother,
Clarence.
Bat. E. 320 F.A.A.P.O., A.E.F.
NOTES: Clarence Venable Steele was born in Elm Springs, Arkansas on January 17, 1894 and died on September 23, 1977. He is buried in the Elm Springs Cemetery at Elm Springs. He departed for France from New York on July 28, 1918 onboard the Saxon. He was listed as a Private serving in Battery A, Camp Beauregard FA June Automatic Replacement Draft. He returned from Bordeaux, France departing on April 26, 1919 onboard the Kentuckian. He arrived in the US on May 9, 1919. Steele was writing his sister Vera Smith of Elm Springs, Arkansas. He had enlisted with Co. A at Springdale, Arkansas in June 1917. He volunteered for immediate service overseas while at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana. He arrived at the front on August 24, 1918.
TRANSCRIBED BY LAEL HARROD