Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-12

the 56th Artillery regiment in France, formerly The Bulletins representative in Willimantic, has written the follow ing letter to a Norwich friend;
 Somewhere in France,
 May 6, 1918.
 How is everything at home? Things are going along great with all of the Norwich boys In the battery. In fact everyone of them in the regiment IS in the best of health and spirits and enjoying the work that has been put on them since arriving. Since 1 sent my letter to the paper we have moved from the city we were stationed in and now we are located about five miles out in a small country town. It sure is different than any town we have ever been in in the States and it is located near a large aviation field. The planes flying over give us some thing to look at besides the natives and the scenes around about us.
 We are all quartsred in billets now and they sure are some places. You may have thought that Guy Empey was writing fiction when he said some of the things he did in his famous book, but from what I have already seen I really think that he had the right idea all the way through. The fellows take everything in a fooling way and go about their work singing and having a general good time. So far our battery seems to have the lead in singing during the hikes and, by the way. we had a beautiful fifteen mile hike this morning in the pouring rain. Wet is no name for it, but it is all in days work with Us now After some good, hard work the bill 1 lets and the yards have been cleaned up and now they look like any re- spectacle place at home in the States | This town was very dirty when we pulled in about a week ago but now everything is fairly we'll cleaned UT and if the rain would only hold off fol a few days and give us chance things | would look mighty good around here Our neighbors. by that I mean the things that hang around the billets are funny things sometimes. The only trouble is that the roosters wake Us up before first call in the morning They are good looking birds, but there is none missing from around our bill let as yet. That is. they are all pres ent and accounted for.
 l I haven't seen Bob (F1etcher) fol about a week and I understand tha he has been moved to a town abou eight miles away. He was located il the same city with the rest of us a first but he got billeted about thu middle of last week saw Dicl Gregson in town the other night anC he is looking good and feeling fine. H is still located in the city that VI moved out of. When the boys iron home get together we sure do hay some great talks of the days whel the crowd was in school and othe l Q a Grove and Buster Corey are bunkin with me and we managed to hay some mighty good times together ! When we go into the city together " sure do have some great old laugh
 trying our French out on the native. Shorty Malcolm is a busy man thes days as he is our mess sergeant an
 everybody is looking for him most ( ] the time. either to tell him somethin , or to kick. There hasn't been an l cause to kick about our feeds yet 3
 we can't expect to get course dinner
 over here.
 At last we have been where tt
 shells are the thickest. We were
 an ammunition factory and they SUI
 did, have some shells there, That as near as we have got so don't wprl
 and tell all of the folks not to worr
 We are all enjoying ourselves as muc t as possible in strange land and u h people of this section are helping ! . to enjoy all we can while we are vii d them.
 S I nearly forgot to tell you that ovt e the door of our billet some of u y more ambitious of the crowd but |
 a sign "Fagan's Smoke Shop"
 sure does cause a lot of laughs l; 1 does the sign Connecticut avenue tn 4 is upon the roadside of the plac , Next Sunday we have got ball gan n scheduled and no doubt it will , some same. Some of the balls ' i have to use are not of the best as Il q covers are pretty well of of the < but we get along and have a lot < fun out of them before they have . go altogether
 We'll, remember me to all of Il
 boys in the office and to everybody
 know, especially the crowd and
 sure and let me hear from you. e As ever,