Show HAS NARROW ESCAPE WW DONALD GOES OVER TOP W GETS A BULLET GAS MASK WHICH WOUNDS COMRADE BESIDE HIM the following letter received by mrs mra E U M dalton fro from her brother pal oriald who is now in belgium was handed to us ua for publication political is because there so much 0 that will b be a of interest to his hia friend contained therein beke belgium Belei um nov 28 dear sister As code adf to and add we do not have to work went I 1 will write a tetter letter to you to let you know time how I 1 am getting along I 1 received your letter wine gome time j ac affo A but have not had much time to write I 1 was sure aure glad to hear from you I 1 wrote mother a letter about a week seek agro ago we are rein in a small email town called beke in belgium we have been to in belgium ever ince nince the of 0 october we could not write where we were before coming here which was just juat a 2 few days day ago aeo but now we can write nearly every day and everything we want to belgium is IB a fine country the people peoli treat us better here hem thin than the deop people did in france we expect to leave here any day now for france somewhere ome where near ear parts pan we are am boinis to lemarne france but of worse coura we can never tell for sure aure orders ordera might be changed chanced it is aid that the division is going hr ahme me before long I 1 hope they do for I 1 would like awful well to net get back home and we see allyon all you debarones de dear arones one again I 1 guese I 1 was one of the lucky ones onea or I 1 might hot have been alive today asure I 1 aure had bad wine close mile calli in the first battle I 1 was in there were buy boys killed and wounded ai around me I 1 guess the closest call I 1 haa ha was when a bullet went through my gas music mask and wounded a boy sitting by me but I 1 should worry sort I 1 guess it is all over with now and I 1 suppose the germans gomall got all the fight they wanted I 1 wax was on the front line when the armistice was signed oo an the elih day sad and bilth hour of november it was wait it a day I 1 will never target forget we took the front line the day be fore and advanced two miles then we dust dug in for the night bight and was to go forward to retard at six in the morning we were all ready to go at that hour but jut juat as we were pre preparing p art 5 g to start we sot cut an order that at we would not go until 10 we waited until 10 and it go then then we heard the armistice had been signed and go further you can ban imagine how bow tickled we were we stayed there them a few days and nd then started back and we have hem been on the move most ill all of the time since mines the first time we went over the top is the only real battle I 1 have been in and I 1 hope it is the hist one I 1 shall ahall ever be in I 1 seen men any of the home boys slow since I 1 left camp lewis I 1 hope they all come out as lucky as I 1 did well I 1 sure lure wish I 1 was home to eat thanksgiving dinner with you door dea defrenes renes son I 1 dont know what we will have here but I 1 goes it will be stew the same mine old thing every thing is so dear here else elm we might have had a chicken for thanksgiving dinner well I 1 will close for this time yuu you con can let mother and the rest of the to folks it a read this I 1 will write again in ID afew a few days day with loveto love to all I 1 am your brother DONALD G ARD co K 64 lafty A E F 76 |