Letter from W.T.
Smith
Letter to his wife from Bugler W.T. Smith, Co. A, 306th,
Tr. Hq. & M. P., A.P.O. 791:
Dec. 4, 1918
This is the first chance I’ve had in two weeks to write. We
have been hiking 14 days back towards home (from the front lines into the
interior of France).
We landed in France at Cherbourg Aug. 17th. Were
18 days en route from New York. Most of our riding in France was done in little
10-ton freight cars or side-door “Pullmans.” Most of our training was in the
villages in Vosges mountains near the Swiss border. We were in shelling
distance of the Germans for some time. Eight days after the armistice we hiked
along way to St. Colombe. They are reorganizing the M.P.’s so possibly my
address may be changed.
Got about a dozen copies of the Post Dispatch today. Seems like influenza is giving a lot of
trouble in Richmond county. Seems to be worse with you than over here, though a
lot of French people have died from it. I have been well most all the time over
here; haven’t been in hospital yet. Give my best regards to my friends back
home, etc.
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