TRANSCRIBED FROM THE HELENA WORLD JANUARY 5, 1919 P. 1
Nov. 25:
In France, ov, 25, 1918
Mrs. B. R. Turner,
212½ Porter St., Helena, Ark.
My Dear Mother:
I write to let you know that I am well and enjoying the best of health overseas, somewhere, but mother do not worry about me, for I will be there some day soon for it is all over now.
Oh, yes, mother Christmas, give give to you all, but keep it until I get there. It will not be long. Mother I am still a sergeant and I have a good captain, he says we are going to have a Christmas like home. He tries to make things as pleasant for us as he can. So you know that I am at home with my “Uncle Sam.”
Give my best regards to all the boys and girls, also Dr. Morris and friends. We have been looking for Dr. Morris ever since we have been here. Well Mother, pray for me as I am praying for myself. I hope you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
From your loving son,
SGT. ALEXANDER TURNER, JR.
Co. B. 328 Labor B.W.
American E.F. via N.Y.
NOTES: Turner was an African American soldier who enlisted in the summer of 1918 and was in Europe by October of that year. He was born in Arkansas in 1898. He departed the US on October 24, 1918 onboard the Mercury. He was a Pvt. serving in Co. B 328th Labor Battalion. He departed Brest, France on September 17, 1919 onboard the Agamemnon and arrived in Hoboken, NJ on September 16. 1919. He was listed as a prisoner.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD
Nov. 25:
In France, ov, 25, 1918
Mrs. B. R. Turner,
212½ Porter St., Helena, Ark.
My Dear Mother:
I write to let you know that I am well and enjoying the best of health overseas, somewhere, but mother do not worry about me, for I will be there some day soon for it is all over now.
Oh, yes, mother Christmas, give give to you all, but keep it until I get there. It will not be long. Mother I am still a sergeant and I have a good captain, he says we are going to have a Christmas like home. He tries to make things as pleasant for us as he can. So you know that I am at home with my “Uncle Sam.”
Give my best regards to all the boys and girls, also Dr. Morris and friends. We have been looking for Dr. Morris ever since we have been here. Well Mother, pray for me as I am praying for myself. I hope you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
From your loving son,
SGT. ALEXANDER TURNER, JR.
Co. B. 328 Labor B.W.
American E.F. via N.Y.
NOTES: Turner was an African American soldier who enlisted in the summer of 1918 and was in Europe by October of that year. He was born in Arkansas in 1898. He departed the US on October 24, 1918 onboard the Mercury. He was a Pvt. serving in Co. B 328th Labor Battalion. He departed Brest, France on September 17, 1919 onboard the Agamemnon and arrived in Hoboken, NJ on September 16. 1919. He was listed as a prisoner.
TRANSCRIBED BY SHANNON SOUTHARD