Show bois NOW ill IN THE SERVICE SERICE clyde buchanan 11 E F france oct let r st ado aai AM now DOW sitting or lying with h hd ai i ory cry low in a little trench bole made by myself to bide hide on the front line trench there i been shar poel bursting all and gad us for tho the lait last 48 honre 1 ii is detill doing 00 t j ii is a ery iery exciting rame I 1 air lr battle which in a now sea ar is like hk a couple of hawke hawks in iky sky getting my head bead down october ard 3rd have moved to another dugout 1 am now under tho the ame same con can ion ona as stated above still till have strong faith io in return I 1 jon yon over get this letter as s it it will be mailed by other banda hands a at my pocket ou on the battle field leyer 1 private clyde buchanan Bu rom beko belgium dec 10 18 I 1 has been somo time since I 1 to yon you but I 1 believe you will yo me for it im ci now cow located ina in a quiet corner all all table in a publio building thil this small town in belgium I 1 am behind a st oTea a piece of fur Is very different in structure a any make I 1 hare seen in ou our r 67 they aro dual purpose IN atad and very with 1 ia a very easy part of our living othere rt here but d m hard fu to pd get b sr 1 hers here mud ie is tho the easiest thing iad ind around here abour our hike hikes the hardest thing ostend with ie is the hard rock damode s made of email small rock about six BIX bis his square which dont make ads nd with the balls of our feet lend tend email small pains through the ie its on up the bonea bones and anti the nerre nerves tre are ro noir now wait for the next or rather roe tini dont know of any questions quee tiona bays asked so 10 nill III wish yon a py xmas and the brightest new r you lave have ever bad had junr eon son ard brother corporal cid buchanan harold bench dies md arold bench died a victim of latoza ima after ft a brief at lia his home in saline ulah utah day earning january ar bench was wa tho the eon son of air filax i bench now of salina recently of mauti and alli william hot this city harold WM III july 1885 and at the greater portion of hie his 1 here nine years ngo ago be ile ved ed to salina sellina where he be married of joaeph joseph crane of belty ty and has made hi bia s home iver since oil survived by hia his wit who the und bud four children two of whom also hae haie the disease hie ills mother father two ate tore rs and two brot broilers berc ills ill s many friends in manti will be grieved to hear bear of hie his untimely death pete hardy A E P F france nov noy now should id au you find this little lip along with this tills liere here dope and you care to heed bead the tape appended to the note then try to judge my feeling when they handel it to me and I 1 found out that my xmas must he be with a stomach lue lite a cormor ant anti and three months taste for sweets with a craving for tobacco and deltres for home clad fet fett how can a poor lone dough boy bay many miles across the tile sea ca hope to have a merry xmas heo ben its still on second thong ht bt it might be and one would be a crab tor for cimpl cause hie ills package ii is just a dab when indeed so many of ua us are around uncles X arnas mae tree plain sense wed deem it mighty largo at and when I 1 think still barthe of the things I 1 really need it cant bo be home knit locke socks for feet that wear like centipedes nor can it yet be candy to suffice tha tile icel el of me when heu it needs must be a parcel that ie and so I 1 thought and thought and thought with aid from several mau from this concurrent deomes th thought I 1 need a fountain pen yet once again we hit bit a nag snag for apet how can it be that we can got a fountain pen still that s the eizo size id ra really like cause timea times come now and then when lie its hard to get the wherewith to fill a fountain pen like for instance when were on the line may hop behind a tree and wish you yon were just about well so hould should you send n good bg big pen pea along ia iu xmas time please pitch on one that has a point that very tiff stiff and fine then just put in most anything to fit quite snag you yon aeo see aal paste pasta this labia lable on the box thae |