Show FOUGHT HARD DIVISION BREAKS ROCHE HEARTS JESS GUTMAN WRITES TO BROTHER BROI HEil TELLING experiences IN FRANCE some mud hole france dee dec 6 dear brother W we a received your moat welcome letter a couple of days ago and you know we are always glad to hear bear from you vou ani know all of YOU are well this leaves us feeling fine and in good health we have been on the move for over 18 days and have hiked over milea mile we were at the front when they quit fighting figh tine ise clow to sedan I 1 guess you know where that is but we are now located in a little village called chemey but I 1 just juat as leave be on some island sa As here but it is like INS the rest of life we must make the best of it we thought we were on our way home that is the reason I 1 write sooner booner but bat we hialit be in france two or three months month yet we dont know but we are getting anxious to tell tel I 1 fran france c a good by we have been under shell hall fire since july 2 until nov alth except when we were shifted from one me front to another we went first to alsace loraine laraine front from there to thierry or the battle of the marne we only lost fifteen hundred d men out nut of our division so you see we held a lucky card hey boya well from there to the woods we chadd the hun out but god only knows the horrors of that battle then we had bad to make another push for some rail road so as to cut his supplies off well that ground around we took but we fought damn damo hard for it bot bit we had the dutch mans heart broken eo an we chased amed him again I 1 guess most of the sickness is ol over at home by bv now I 1 do hope so well it is getting late so go will say good night to you all cal jess guymon co C fowls A E F fran france P S you know we are in the division they are ly all 11 new york boys we have never wen seen any boys from home yet |