TRANSCRIBED FROM THE DAILY ARKANSAS GAZETTE MARCH 12, 1919 P. 16
I guess there are lots of the boys that have got back home by now. I don’t know when I get to come home. Am in Germany, on the Rhine.
The first battle I was in was September 12. I went to the trenches on the night of September 11, and went over the top the next morning at 5 o’clock, and went to the rear the third day. One year to the day from the time I went to the local board I went over the top.
I landed in France on July 9. Landed in England July 7 and had two days and two nights there. It sure is a pretty place. I was in Belgium, and now in Germany.
I would like to be home by the Fourth of July if I can. I hope I can, anyway. I may be home before that; I don’t know.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Carl Rufus Wilson to his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wilson. He did his basic training at Camp Pike, Arkansas and served with the 87th Division. During his service he received a slight injury to his left hip, which required a month and one half stay in the hospital. He served as a Pfc Co H 23rd Infantry. He had been a teamster for the A. T. Neimeyer Lumber Company prior to the war. He was born on January 28, 1895 in Maumelle, Arkansas and died on June 28, 1974 in Pocahontas, Arkansas. He is buried in the Little Rock National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as PVT U S Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT
I guess there are lots of the boys that have got back home by now. I don’t know when I get to come home. Am in Germany, on the Rhine.
The first battle I was in was September 12. I went to the trenches on the night of September 11, and went over the top the next morning at 5 o’clock, and went to the rear the third day. One year to the day from the time I went to the local board I went over the top.
I landed in France on July 9. Landed in England July 7 and had two days and two nights there. It sure is a pretty place. I was in Belgium, and now in Germany.
I would like to be home by the Fourth of July if I can. I hope I can, anyway. I may be home before that; I don’t know.
NOTES: This partial letter was written by Carl Rufus Wilson to his parents Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wilson. He did his basic training at Camp Pike, Arkansas and served with the 87th Division. During his service he received a slight injury to his left hip, which required a month and one half stay in the hospital. He served as a Pfc Co H 23rd Infantry. He had been a teamster for the A. T. Neimeyer Lumber Company prior to the war. He was born on January 28, 1895 in Maumelle, Arkansas and died on June 28, 1974 in Pocahontas, Arkansas. He is buried in the Little Rock National Cemetery in Little Rock, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as PVT U S Army.
TRANSCRIBED BY CAROLYN YANCEY KENT