The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1918-12-26

pronounce but will write and send it
to you, "Domery Aux Bois." 1t is
not a very large place and ! don't
think as much Of it as / do of Butler,
Missouri. | think we will be home
now in a short while and they can't
send me home too soon.
Well, we have been over here now
over six months./ 1t will be seven
months tomorrow since we left New
York. We left Ft. Sill April II, 1913.
and were in Kansas City about two
hours and arrived in St. Louis about
10 D. m. the 18th of April. Ne ar
rived in Jersey City April ~, and got
on the boat the 24th Of April and
sailed April a5th. We we're thirteen
days on the water. We had good
time coming across. l was a little
sick about a day or two, but it didn't
amount to much. The ship we sailed
on was an English ship, CORONA.
Well, we landed in Liverpool, May
9TH, and took a train there. it sure
was some train, too, but it went fast
enough. The cars are about Ia as
large as United States cars, We
rode ali night on the train and ar
rived in Romsey; England. May 9th,
and were there in camp about eight
days. We were. on English ratiofls
there and they were not much. We
then went from there tn 8Nth
Hampton and left there the Iotl 3sss
France. We landed in Loharve,l
France, May I7th, and we went ont
to the camp there and were there
two or three days and received our
gas masks. We left there On the
train. and rode ali night on the tram
and trey wv re HE S1iiae kind Of.
trim that England had. VIZ ~
rived at Eu, France. the next morn
ing about g:3o or 10 o'clock and
hiked from there to Sept Meules. q
distance of about nine or ten miles
that afternoon and l. guess we were
there about three weeks. We drilled
there every day. It was an awful
place. SO small, and the people over
there live SO funny any way. They
have their houses and barns all TO-
gether,
We. left there one afternoon and
hiked to place and stopped over
night and started again the next
morning and hiked until about one or
two o'clock and stopped for the day.
The next morning we started again
and went to Buchy and then we
entrained again and rode for couple
Of days and nights and we got OFT at
Haroie where we hiked again about
fifteen or sixteen miles to St. Larent,
i place only about I-2 miles from
Epinal, and was a good place, l
think It the best place we have been
since we have been over here.
That was the place where we drew
our trucks. We got about IL Fords
and about d 1 Ia ton trucks to the
company. We stayed there about
three weeks and l wished we could
have stayed there until the end o.
the war. When we lett there we
left in our trucks and went to ven
tron, small village, arriving !u.y
Ist, We had a pretty good pace
there and remained about a month.
When we left Ventron we went to
the Voges Mountains and THAN was
the first time we were in the
trenctes. Wa were in there about
twelSr or fourteen days. It was 2
nu;et, place and was for training OF
kofh sidea mostly. Mo- one was hurt
while we were there.
When We left the trenches we had
"a leave at night because they Ale
v.vs skeiied the road when troops
mnved, "a and out. We went to
Ceandesner. another very good town.
NJ fad hand concerts and almost
every night We had some place to
soend the evening. We were there
S~..e -, .;eels and. left there and