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Private Lawrence lizard of Quarter
master Corps Writes from lie Havre
to Parents in Brattleboro.


master Corps Writes from lie Havre
to Parents in Brattleboro.
A letter from Private Lawrence lizard
of the quartermaster corps, dated at LIE
Havre, France, June II, has just been
received by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jams w. lizard. The letter follows:
Dear Mother and Dad
After travelling over a month | am
assigned to a place where think |
will stay for while SO am writing to-
give you my address. / haven't re
ceived any mail yet, but we have%been
moving from one place to another and
guess | haven't had time to get any.
When / do get some there viii proba-
bly, be bunch of it and it will seem
good.
An order has come out that we may
give the place where we are at, as you
will notice by the heading. / have
written either five or six letters before
this so you can tell whether you have
received them. I doubt very much
whether you have received them all.
| We landed in - and stayed at a rest
camp on the outskirts of the city for
to -, a place about 30 miles from =,
where we stayed in camp for about
three days From there we were called
out, as we were needed, and Is of us
came to lie Havre, where we are doing
clerical work at one of the bases. On
our way from - here we had quite a
! few stop-overs at different stations and
so had q chance to see quite a few inter
/ 10 Oh
at Tours and filled in the time by 60
! ing through the cathedral of Tours
which was built in 1170, and through
L'Hotel de Vile, which is one Of the
best hotels in France. There was a
museum which we went through and saw
some famous oil paintings, including
some of Ruben s, and Napoleon s
room with a bed he used to own and
a couple of carved tables, gold clock,
etc We had two or three more stops
at small places and then had about an
hour at -. We saw the cathedral there,
but didn t have time to go through it.
Then we saw the tower where Joan
d Are was imprisoned and the market
place and pillar where she was burned.
Since we left the United States /
have slept on floors, iron Stats and ev-
erything else. They were short of bar
racks when we got here, so the 10 of
us were put in private boarding house,
where we are sleeping in real beds and
have a carpet on the floor and have a
pretty good room. We expect to be
moved back into barracks in few
! days, but, believe me, that bed sure
feels good.
There are lot of soldiers going
through the city, English, Australian
French, American, Belgian, and ever
. German prisoners.
=, Quite q few of the soldiers are here
! to recuperate from wounds, gas attacks
! etc When we get broke into the worl
here we may take the place of som,
of those fellows back from the from
:, and they will take our place, so they
will have a chance to take it easy fo
: a while. There ism t as much excite
ment here as there is il. most an,
: place you can name, so a shift soone
: or later might be appreciated. OF cours
? lie Havre is a good sized city and w
can always find something to do, but
: had rather be in the field.
= Bread tickets are in use over here
y but as we are in the army we get a
! we want, but there ism t any wheat i
il. 1t looks and tastes something lik
!. rye bread. But if you go into a restar
" rant to get meal you have to produc
'e ticket or you don t get any. Waite
conditions are poor and | guess that
af one thing the French don't believe
Va very much: not to the extent of drinl
y ing it anyway. About every other stoI
n is a wine shop, and after sampling SON
of it, IN say they don t need an,
body advice as to how to make it. 4
one camp where we stopped we though
p sure we would be able to take a show
~ bath, but when we got there the
wasn't any running water in the who
place; in fact, they had to haul eve
"a the drinking water by autos, so Il
whole company marched down to Il
river and took, bath. There II have
be new soap-factory started up
ed the United States to replace all'that '
in used.
or At one camp we were in over night
Ir. fell into the same mess line with De
h nv Leahy, whom I used to go to hi
on school with. He's the first fellow
ct. have met that l knew, and was glad
see him (and vice versa guess, too),
ed though we only had few minutes
wn gether.
I'm / am feeling fine and in the best
on health. When you answer my lette
ed be sure and ask all the questions y
DIV want and give me some of the neN
Der That way 1 II think of more to VIZ
lk. and can write a longer letter. 1t s ha
RS to think of anything to write, |
In some day I'll be able to tell you
M whole rigamarole.
ar The Boches have certainly been 70
las ing the devil the last couple of wee
OF haven t they9 But as one Frenchm
nd' told me, Let them come on, We
on slaughter them as they come. - A
use l guess he had it about right, too.
'se There isn't much that | can say,
oi / have picked out few of the THU
'1 =, that / thought would get by. Be
and write often.