French Foreign Legion
To the Vicomtesse du Peloux 2ème Régiment Étranger, March 7, 1915. My dear Madame: I received your letter and appreciate it very much. The package has not yet arrived but suppose it will be waiting for me when I go back from the trenches this time. The time it takes...
French Foreign Legion
Feb. 28, 1915. Dear Paul: Received your letter yesterday, got the fifty francs; the package announced hasn’t arrived yet. Spent six days on petit poste in an open trench close enough to hear the Germans talking. On guard all night. In the daytime, would slip down...
French Foreign Legion
To the Vicomte du Peloux 2ème Régiment Étranger, Bon C. 1ère Cie., 3ème Son., Feb. 16, 1915. Dear Sir: I received your letter four days ago, for which I thank you very much. I am well and getting along fine and have no right to complain of anything. I came back last...
French Foreign Legion
2ème Régiment Étranger, Bon C. 1ère Cie., Feb. 16, 1915. Dear Paul: I would have written you earlier but I have been either too busy, too disgusted, or too uncomfortable. The last four days we have been at a reserve post, the first since you left, and they were four...
French Foreign Legion
Feb. 8, 1915. Dear Mamma: Little to write, just the same old life. Came back last night from four days at one of our most advanced positions here. The English in the Legion left for the English Army about a week ago. I could have gone but decided at the last minute...
French Foreign Legion
Feb. 1, 1915. Dear Paul: Received your letter this morning, was certainly glad to hear from you, also to receive the twenty francs. There is a farm here that is stocked up with chocolate, cheese, etc., and all of us have been feeding up, so you can see the money was...
French Foreign Legion
2ème Régiment Étranger, Dear Mamma: I suppose you are a little worried about me, owing to recent happenings, but have spent eight days in a position where we couldn’t send any mail. They have put a strong censorship on all our mail and threaten dire punishment if we...
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Dear Paul: I have written you letters to both Montmirail and Château-Thierry, also forwarded a bunch of letters, because I felt you were more sure to receive them that way than by my keeping them, as our life is very uncertain these days. I have received a card from...
French Foreign Legion
Dear Paul: Received your letter from Château-Thierry yesterday, first I had heard for a long while. I wrote one letter and one card to Montmirail, telling what I had been doing and of Weideman’s death. I have just got back this morning from another four days in the...
French Foreign Legion
Dear Paul: Haven’t heard from you for a long while but hope you are in Paris. Just got back from eight days in the place where Weideman was killed. We were not allowed to send any mail and they are putting a strong censorship on all our letters; have threatened to...