TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DREW COUNTY ADVANCE APRIL 22, 1919 P. 3
Aix Les Bains, France.
Mrs. M. N. Trantham.
Dear Mother:
How are all at home? I am O. K. Mama I am in Aix Les Bains, France, on leave. Some of us boys came down here an away leave, but it took us two days and two nights to come down and will take us that long to go back, so we will have 7 days i n Aix Les Bains. It is a very nice place. We are having a grand time. This is Friday ____ we leave out Monday. We have seen quite a few wonderful things ____here. We went up this morning and took a look at a man which has been embalmed 5000 years. Egyptians embalmed him. The wrappings have been taken from around his ankles and we could see the ankle joint. We have a nice place to stay, one of the nicest hotels in town, the one where so many Y. M. C. A. girls stay.
They take us around and show everything to be seen. There are mountains here that the snow never melts off. When it rains down here it snows on the mountains. We haven’t been on top of the highest one yet, but intend going up before we leave. We are going out in the country this afternoon on bicycles. We went out yesterday in a car and have had some pictures made. Will send some home. Will send pictures of buildings here.
If you remember reading of Harry K. Thaw, one of the biggest gamblers in the world. His home was here. He is crazy now. I saw the gambling house that he won. The night he won it he bought champagne and had his wife to take a bath in it. I also saw the bullet hole where he shot at a picture of a woman and missed. He had up $2000.00 on it. I went up this morning and had a pretty little girl to manicure my finger nails and then went over to another place and a girl shined my shoes. I won’t say how she looked.
Well, Mama, some of the boys have gone out and some are waiting on me to go. Keep these leaves until I get home. I will write in a few days. I remain,
Your loving son,
Floyd Trantham.
Field Hospital, 114 Sanitary Train, A. E. F., 7th Army Corp.
A.P.O. 792. Withlick, Germany
NOTES: Floyd Eugene Trantham was born on March 5, 1896 in Monticello, Arkansas and died on December 12, 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He departed for France on August 22, 1918 onboard the Toloa. He was serving as a Private in the Field Hospital Co., 153 Sanitary Train 114.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS
Aix Les Bains, France.
Mrs. M. N. Trantham.
Dear Mother:
How are all at home? I am O. K. Mama I am in Aix Les Bains, France, on leave. Some of us boys came down here an away leave, but it took us two days and two nights to come down and will take us that long to go back, so we will have 7 days i n Aix Les Bains. It is a very nice place. We are having a grand time. This is Friday ____ we leave out Monday. We have seen quite a few wonderful things ____here. We went up this morning and took a look at a man which has been embalmed 5000 years. Egyptians embalmed him. The wrappings have been taken from around his ankles and we could see the ankle joint. We have a nice place to stay, one of the nicest hotels in town, the one where so many Y. M. C. A. girls stay.
They take us around and show everything to be seen. There are mountains here that the snow never melts off. When it rains down here it snows on the mountains. We haven’t been on top of the highest one yet, but intend going up before we leave. We are going out in the country this afternoon on bicycles. We went out yesterday in a car and have had some pictures made. Will send some home. Will send pictures of buildings here.
If you remember reading of Harry K. Thaw, one of the biggest gamblers in the world. His home was here. He is crazy now. I saw the gambling house that he won. The night he won it he bought champagne and had his wife to take a bath in it. I also saw the bullet hole where he shot at a picture of a woman and missed. He had up $2000.00 on it. I went up this morning and had a pretty little girl to manicure my finger nails and then went over to another place and a girl shined my shoes. I won’t say how she looked.
Well, Mama, some of the boys have gone out and some are waiting on me to go. Keep these leaves until I get home. I will write in a few days. I remain,
Your loving son,
Floyd Trantham.
Field Hospital, 114 Sanitary Train, A. E. F., 7th Army Corp.
A.P.O. 792. Withlick, Germany
NOTES: Floyd Eugene Trantham was born on March 5, 1896 in Monticello, Arkansas and died on December 12, 1985 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He departed for France on August 22, 1918 onboard the Toloa. He was serving as a Private in the Field Hospital Co., 153 Sanitary Train 114.
TRANSCRIBED BY LINDA MATTHEWS