Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-27
SOLDIERS AND SAIL ORS What Eastern Connecticut Boys Are peina h Various Branches Of the Service.
In the Gallant io4th.


 Mrs A. A. Robiason of Grove street, who is in the l0tth Regiment, whose coiors were recently decorated by one of the French generals, is. seeing "a good part. of France, according to let ters that he has sent here to his par ents The regiment has evidently been shifted around considerably. The following are extracts from his letters:'
 1 May 4th, 1918.
 My Dear Folks: It has been a, long tinie since l have had chance to write home. We have made a couple of moves since my last letter, written | abeut the middle of April. We have been nearly all over France and 1t looks like we might do it all over again. After these trips with the American army I can lead circus life sF:theut any trouble. I ran across some Connecticut boys this last trip, but 10 one I know. the Willimantic ard some of the New Haven boys. There are some. Norwich boys with the New Haven cenpany but they are in the trenches. I wish I knew where the old Third and Fifth c. A. C. boys were,
 Have tried to find them. Herbert
 Burnlana's son is with the 1o1st Ma chine Gun company and is billeted next l9oer' to us. had a nice visit with him last night That company is made up Of Hartford boys. Last Sunday the old 164th was reviewed by the French general and our regimental flag was
 decorated, the first one in the history
 they say to be decorated by a for eign country. Five of our boys re- ceived medals, and the whole com
 pany received about eighty medals. I
 see by the Boston papers that the felst is the eniy company that are do- |, ing any thing over here but when they
 get the accounts of our proceedings they will open their eyes. I guess they ought to any wsy--if they have any
 sense, This is some town we are in, no lights. but day light. and we land
 ed at night and perhaps you csn |, ina zine tfe nice time we had putting , up the animals. My paper has given out so must close, will write again l May sth,s1s1s. . I promised to write often. so here goes, although there is nothing to write about. There is nothing at all in this village where our base is and
 when you are once in here you can net get out. I never had time hang on my hands as it does here and we ] may get two more weeks of it. Oui !; paymaster has forgotten to come around for three months. I know hin [ quite well and if I could see him fol three minutes I'd tell him few things |, We have had a week of sunshine ' yesterday we had & good old thunder i, shower, like we used to have in New Y England only it forgot to stop rain. | ing for the whole day. Today I re. , eeived all the Bulletins for March from an Alice Kennedy, 15 Town street, ana they were mailed for the Machine Gun company of the 104th and little mt f happening to be the only one here a I the time they were delivered to me. 4 letter from dad in New Jersey and ont . from ma came last night. Tell dad tha e Gardner Hall Jr., is with the elt 1, Troop B. Of Hartford. had :. nice tall . with him him last night. It seems goot v to see boys from Connecticut. Trool : ! B are fine bunch of boys part 0 Q them have tine "hotel'' next to us. Gu
 '.Fotef' is the Quincy house (Bostonl V The bill of fare is on the door, but tn s 1 cook does not live up to it (no fault o :, bisl. H&
 st I guess there is little doing wher I our boys are. We have no news iron e them so things must be quiet. Nov II I have used double issue of pape
 and if ! ask for more I might Ian,
 
 5'@ May 18th. |, Dear Mother: As I cannot be hom [. on the day when most of us. would b :, so glad to be, I will let you knoy q thar I am thinking of you. Genera
 FersiEng wishes every boy who has
 mothe: would write to her today an Ls I hope Neyery one thinks enough c 'i his dear mother to do that much fo : her. l guess all mothers are wish e ing that their dear boys were wit D. them today. I know wish coul
 he with YOU. I have written two letter
 in .. week so there is little to tell vol .e I am writing jn the Salvation Arm ss tent the first time I have been in i ls Thev are doing as much for us as tn Y |. NJ. C. A. IL seems to me I under ia stand that there is q lot of mail corr is ing in tonight 50 I must get up to tf] ' hotel and get my share. I am send ~ ing q pamphlet gotten out for Moth ,SI, CTS. Day. which I hope you will lik 7i The wheels in my head refuse to wor ,d today-so no more now.
 5 May 18th.
 This is just the weekly letter to l, s- you know I am still on my feet, ar h still in the same place. I just feur ar out that Rip. Morgan is near hel ,e land I shall try to go and see him. is sent him word that thought we wou $. stay in tf1ss God fersaIlen place Tor l. enough, for him to come and see m l. He replied that he would try to con l. over Yesterday I had a good swir le the first this year, not much of S. place. but as good as some of the pla is les where I went swimming when 1y kid. One of the boys is on the stag k and giving us & few jokes, quite inte al estipg puJ hard on letter writing. O. ts company has been presented with co piano and we have music a plenty. a'} May 2. Just few lines Ssain, it m too hot here now to exercise muc on They put guard on. our swifnrniI T- pool, so that fun is at an end. l que
 l can spend time enough to tell yC
 something of our Hotel we thif
 it was once an old nill-a hundr'
 years or so ago. The lower rooms a D" occupied by seventeen mules and eig rs, horses; in one corner there is 8 sms
 platform, about fourteen feet squa
 and about nine feet from the groul oe floor, the elevator is ladder wi on most of the rungs gone. which is | ed right in the day time, but when O ,1S tenants on the lower floor get on IaS rampage and we have to 80 down a. the dark, (not a flicker of liz In aliowedl it's not so nice, especially
 one lands on some part of their bo' ,r- beside their feet, same as I did. Aft Ie. my fall it was hard finding a SC -s- spot on the boards for my hip-so
 hit upon the plan of making a har +1 Ihock of 4 horse blanket which was