French Foreign Legion
Jan. 11, 1915. Dear Paul: Haven’t heard from you for a long while; will not mail this letter until to-morrow, in hopes of having your address. If I don’t hear, will send this, and forward other mail. Have been unable to write myself, owing to what I have been going...
French Foreign Legion
Jan. 7, 1915. Dear Agnes: I have had practically no sleep for the last eighty hours, but I can’t sleep now so will write you and try to keep my mind occupied. I received your letter and the gold piece a few days after Xmas, in the trenches. I forwarded the letter to...
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2ème Régiment Étranger, Bon C. 1ère Cie., Dec. 29, 1914. This is the third day back in the same trenches as we were in last. The line is a little more active. Last night our petit poste and a German patrol had a little scrap. They gave “Aux armes.” We stayed out for a...
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Dec. 26, 1914. Dear Paul: Received your letter yesterday, also saw your article in the Daily Mail, which we all thought well written. This is the sixth day that we have been here in C——, supposedly for a rest, but every day we have gone out at eleven o’clock and dug...
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Dec. 26, 1914. Dear Mamma: Just a few lines to let you know that I am well and thinking of you. This is the sixth day that we have been in a small village in the rear of the trenches. It was to be six days of rest, but each day, at 11 a.m., we have gone out with our...
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Dec. 10, 1914. Dear Mamma: Have received letters from you as late as Nov. 20th. Am living in anticipation of the package, though I know my getting it is very uncertain. Do not go to much expense or trouble with packages, but if you find they come through, and you send...
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Address ℅ The Regiment, France. Dec. 1, 1914 Dear Mamma: Since my letter of Nov. 14, I have spent twelve days in the trenches and rest of time at work in the rear. Go back to the trenches to-night. We are so safely entrenched that there is practically no danger at...
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Nov. 14, 1914. Dear Mamma: I will write you a short letter, on the chance of its going through, to let you know that Paul and I are both well and safe. We are still -at the front, but have been most of the time in the reserve trenches and therefore in no danger. Of...
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Camp de Mailly, Aube, France, Friday, Oct. 16, 1914 Dear Mamma: Your letter of Sept. 20 reached us the first of the week and the one of the 28th came to-day, showing that the mail service is getting a little better. We are always glad to get mail as we hear very...
French Foreign Legion
Toulouse, France, Sept. 25, 1914. Dear Mamma: Paul and I have received only one letter from you since being here. It was a note written Sept. 4, and addressed to London, and begging us to come home. The thought of you has been the very thing that has worried me since...