| Show all well and happy wrote sterling russell the following Is part of the last letter written to his wife by sterling russell before he met death on the battlefield idov 7 in france oct 28 1918 at the top of my letters you will I 1 put in france but it we keep on going we will have to put somewhere in germany we rise at six a in and stand retreat at 4 45 p m as it gets dark about ap m I 1 must tell you something of our barracks imagine a city on the hillside where the houses are dugouts rooted over and placed in rows these are our billets at present and there are about men in one hut for music we have the rumble of the big guns on the front lines yet we are miles behind the first line but I 1 might tell you here the timidity of the front has long ago left me tor I 1 know and have seen the horrible scenes of the battle fields where mens arms legs heads and even the whole body was blown to pieces by shannel I 1 would like to picture a few scenes I 1 have seen and been in but must wait until I 1 get home if you will remember when I 1 made the speech of acceptance of the flag I 1 said we would go over the top in france tor our dear ones at home and that statement has been fulfilled as it was just three months from the date we left st george until we did it and all the boya who left that morning came out safe and sound but much the wiser now we are far behind the exciting places I 1 saw wallard andrus and wallard aiger day before yesterday vivian milne is here and I 1 see him every day we are all well and happy and are of the opinion we will be home within one year we have been out rifle practicing and had a german helmet for a target german equipment Is very plentiful through this field |
