TRANSCRIBED FROM THE SCOTT COUNTY ADVANCE REPORTER MARCH 6, 1919 P. 4
Ettil Bruck, Luxinbourg
2–9-19
Mr. Jim Cox Editor of the Advance Reporter.
My dear friend and brother. I. O. O. F. I thought I would write you a few lines being it is Sunday and I haven’t nothing to do, this leaves me all o.k. hope the same to you and all the readers of your paper. I am now in Ettilbruck luxinBourg and it is a pretty nice place. But I would rather be there where I can see all the old friends and brothers of Odd Fellows and be with them in the lodge. Well it is plenty cold here now and plenty of snow and not much sunshine, but plenty of rain. Well Mr. Cox I got to the front line in Nov. and heard the roaring of the big shells that came over and heard the big guns, they would shake the ground for miles around and I hauled lots of the big shells that they would use and I saw some of the places where the shells had bursted and there would be a hole in the ground that I would be safe in saying that a house would go in. Well I have been in France over a portion of it and the Grand Dutches now and have seen some real nice coutry in both and some pretty sorry country too but I like over here not much it rains over here too much to much to suit me. I am pretty well satisfied with the army life so far as I have been, they get a fellow up pretty early in the morning but I like that part of it pretty well anyhow but I would rather be where I could farm, for I do like farm life and I think that I will be back by the last of April or maybe sooner or not so soon. I am in the 33rd division and I think it will maybe be in before many months so I will ring off for this time feeling fine and dandy and hpe the same to you all down there and all that reads your paper from your Brother I O.O.F. George Syler to you all.
Co. D. 129 US Inf 33 div A.P.O. 750.
NOTES: George Otto Syler was born near Parks, Arkansas on October 19, 1893 and died on February 3, 1968. He is buried in the Pilot Prairie Cemetery in Waldron, Arkansas. He departed from New York on August 24, 1918 onboard the Cedric. He was serving as a Private in the Camp Pike August Automatic Replacement Draft Co. #3 Infantry. He departed Brest, France onboard the Leviathan on May 15, 1919 and arrived in Hoboken, NJ on May 22, 1919. He was serving as a Private in Co. D. 129th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD
Ettil Bruck, Luxinbourg
2–9-19
Mr. Jim Cox Editor of the Advance Reporter.
My dear friend and brother. I. O. O. F. I thought I would write you a few lines being it is Sunday and I haven’t nothing to do, this leaves me all o.k. hope the same to you and all the readers of your paper. I am now in Ettilbruck luxinBourg and it is a pretty nice place. But I would rather be there where I can see all the old friends and brothers of Odd Fellows and be with them in the lodge. Well it is plenty cold here now and plenty of snow and not much sunshine, but plenty of rain. Well Mr. Cox I got to the front line in Nov. and heard the roaring of the big shells that came over and heard the big guns, they would shake the ground for miles around and I hauled lots of the big shells that they would use and I saw some of the places where the shells had bursted and there would be a hole in the ground that I would be safe in saying that a house would go in. Well I have been in France over a portion of it and the Grand Dutches now and have seen some real nice coutry in both and some pretty sorry country too but I like over here not much it rains over here too much to much to suit me. I am pretty well satisfied with the army life so far as I have been, they get a fellow up pretty early in the morning but I like that part of it pretty well anyhow but I would rather be where I could farm, for I do like farm life and I think that I will be back by the last of April or maybe sooner or not so soon. I am in the 33rd division and I think it will maybe be in before many months so I will ring off for this time feeling fine and dandy and hpe the same to you all down there and all that reads your paper from your Brother I O.O.F. George Syler to you all.
Co. D. 129 US Inf 33 div A.P.O. 750.
NOTES: George Otto Syler was born near Parks, Arkansas on October 19, 1893 and died on February 3, 1968. He is buried in the Pilot Prairie Cemetery in Waldron, Arkansas. He departed from New York on August 24, 1918 onboard the Cedric. He was serving as a Private in the Camp Pike August Automatic Replacement Draft Co. #3 Infantry. He departed Brest, France onboard the Leviathan on May 15, 1919 and arrived in Hoboken, NJ on May 22, 1919. He was serving as a Private in Co. D. 129th Infantry.
TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUE HOWARD