Show CLARENCE C HATCH CH IN ARMY occupation the lo 10 llo letter was received f iby by postmaster master F A hatch from his son clarence written december 28 1918 from le burneau our neau france he left camp kei ke r rny june 12 1918 and went over cas where he was to t e c field artillery second divisio divisi oi I 1 dear folks 1 I guess you t think it is an awful 10 long na time lime bet between een letters well I 1 jamef think the same k I 1 heard from home but one once i and that is is about four months ago so 30 dont know whether you folks ar arf alive or not I 1 sure would like t hear ho ear from you folks back there in gods country I 1 have been in the hospital ii spital sick with span ish influenza cut ut am feeling all right ri bt again I 1 hale haie been in this canle camp since the atef f november am awful sick of it I 1 will sure be glad to get back to to my company compo alny we are going to pull out either tonight 0 or in the mor morning ing dont on t know now how bow long we will be gone the trains travel awful flow low in this country i my outfit wasn was gasn i n luxemburg Lux embury the last I 1 heard of i I 1 guess I 1 will have some mail in ail up here bere I 1 sure hope so I 1 am feeling retty pretty good but the weather is qui quite e bad rains all the time but no snow here I 1 am j just a s short h or t distance d is t anfe from bordeaux so am in in sunny parts but never see the sun we have much of a christmas but buts retty pretty good under the circumstances have you heard anything about U coming home I 1 would sure like to see some of the boys I 1 will he fie surprised if I 1 get hocq before july uly or august but hope so we are int hit he army of occupation c cu 2nd and division d vision so dont don t know what might happen h apen clem parkin is is in the division so is in the same fix fik I 1 guess you sent me a christmas pac package kige will get it when I 1 get up to my outfit I 1 get here in time to do much fighting but enough ildas I 1 if was in the alsace lorraine front two to weeks we sure knocked them dead there was dh the champaign 27 days an and we sure had some hard I 1 fighting there we got shot all to pieces I 1 was on the k argonne front days threes three days after I 1 left eft the armistice irmi stice was signed so I 1 miss r niss much of the fun the night I 1 left the front about two hundred gas shells fell all aro around und us about twelve ocI ock at night and sure raised the devil with us and our horses hores I 1 will tell you all about it some day and I 1 hope it wont be long i 11 am sure glad the firing has stopper for it is sure hel bell to never know v i len en you are going to be bumped bampe dof of I 1 saw by the paper a while a 10 0 that t h at a bunch went out of england s so I 1 guess herald nelson is ba home ome b this well father I 1 will close as if i is bed time and I 1 have got to afke mike my bed so will say good nighta nigh tJ CLARENCE CLAR CE C HATCH |