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Show : FRED MOKON WOUNDED IN BATTLE i 1 Mrs. M. Peterson of 2102 Jefferson avenue has received a most intorest- ing letter from her son Fred Morri- son who is with the 1st Gas Regiment in France. Fred enlisted with the 30th Engineers December 10, 1917 and was in training at Fort Meyer, Ya., until 1 June, 191S. and has been in active service ser-vice in France since July of the present pres-ent year. He says: "Dearest Mother Just a few lines to let you know that I am still alive and well, and have not forgotten you. I have been looking for a letter from you every day, but it seems all in vain. I have, not had a letter for three months. I hope this finds you well and happy. "I just got back from the front where we have been doing some very heavy fighting. The Bodies fight good ten or twelve miles off but when it comes to hand to hand fighting tho Sammies are a thousand times better. I saw ono sadly wounded Sammio bringing in eight Bochc prisoners the morning I came down. "A few nights ago another soldier and I were sleeping under a tree when old Fritz started to shell that locality and we jumped up and ran for a dugout dug-out and just as we did he hit the tree and cut it off about a foot from th.1 ground. My bed is still under it. I also got gassed the same night but it was not serious, just a couple of little burns. Little things like that are common occurrences up at the front. I only'wlsh I were allowed to tell you more about it for I am sure it would be interesting reading, but I will have to wait until I return home which will be the day of my life. I do not think it .will he so very longfor'wo arc giving giv-ing the Fritzes just about all he can stand and then some. How is everything every-thing in OgdenJ I met Harry Phillips, Phil-lips, he is sure a nice fellow. A few days after I met him he got wounded with a piece of shrapnel but do not think it was bad. "I am staying in what was once a nice town, but it is mostly in ruins, and it has been abandoned for four years. A few of tho people that used to live here arc coming back, poor souls. It is the only place they have, and besides it is home, and that is everything. ev-erything. "Well, dear, I must close, with love. "Your loving son, "FRED MORRISON. "1st Gas RgL Co. E A. P. O. 706." oo |