Show HIKES MILES WERE A HAPPY BUNCH BM WHEN mm WAR ENDED LEE rowley WRITES WHITES OF HIS IN IK FRANCE MEETS EDDIE BENTLEY bure bare lea tempters france franc jan 23 alex H R rollo jim janwa Parow nn utah cl V ear friend now the war 1 la over and we american boys boya have dished the work we were sent over to do I 1 take its time to drop you a few fear linn lines to let YOU know kaow I 1 am well and hope that you mail and the people of carowan parowan are the same nine we do not net lack for work even if thae the W war or is over we have work enough to keep our minds 0 out of nf if all 11 II the 1 evil I there is IB for it to indulge in io I 1 will try and rive give you a little history of myself print prat lorio lorin orton and od E earl a ra we arrived at brest france may 18 1918 where we spent a week weak in ID napoleons Nepo leoni leons old quarters qu artera we went from there to tours toura from tours toura to gehres where we worked three months building railroad railroads rail roada and bakeries I 1 was w as transferred from co P F to head headquarters quarters and put in the bond band we went wall to all villages village within fifty miles of genres playing for the b boya ore when we left devres we went to chaumont Chou moat where re we saw general pershing Per shiDE fro from in t there here we went to colmar then from colmar to the lanane front fronc I 1 where we were for six BIZ weeks and all 11 three of us came me out of it in good shape we then went to claremont the fi first fit place where the town was deserted from there we went to from their to nancy and then than to tool we then went want to grandpre grand pre where the dutch down or germans germana wre ware two hours on head of us we saw baw many and many poor A americana ricans dead and cold but bill we al con could not do a thing but go TO on we followed the get german m an day devil to somene near swe sweden den where we were when the armistice was signed we were war e sure aure a happy bunch we III hiked ked then two hundred miles which made a total of near five hundred ad miles we walked under in heavy envy p pack ack and gun when we were at verdun I 1 saw low eddie bentley of parowan carowan Pa rowan and it was sure a 2 happy meeting we are no now in bure fee tempters templers Temp lers waiting for the word to pack up and nd go home eight months I 1 ID france framl does not seem long for we were kept buly busy bushall all the time now the war in IB over time seems longer you people have had a small taste of war and called it bitter b but t it was wait sweet the french have aued lived on it for four long years and still till do no not t find fault you should have seen men some of the french ladies when we got in a place where the germans had held them for four year years they were like children at christmas christinas time well dear friends frienda I 1 hope you have A prosperous prop prope erous rims new year may the lord bless blesa YOU all is 11 my sincere wish MUS LEE ROWLEY 4 Q D date engine engineers ere band france |