Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-04-01

! Mrs. Willis Fowler of Second street,
! Hallowell has recently received the
! following interesting letters from her
brother, Frank w. Hunt, Company :.
l03 L. S. Infantry
France, Feb. q. 1918.
| Dear Sister:
Have just received your letter of Jan.
10 and as | have got Il chance to write
l will answer it right away. 1t will
have to do for you and father too. as
don't get a chance to write all the
time. You tell Emma | will write
some time when | have n chance. l
have not received the package you
said she had sent me. ! am getting
low on my tobacco. The Government
issued us some just before we left for
the front that has gone long ago.
am well and still contentcd with my
lot so far. | have been on the firing
! line right up to the front facing the
Germans. ! never see one live one. l
see few dead ones around through
the woods. Helped bury one that was
! laying in a shell hole. 1t is not bad
at the front as people think. 1t seems
funny to hear the shells so whistling
over your bean and then they explode
farther on. One night both sides had
a great fight with the big guns. They
called it Il bombardment and believe
me | thought it was all right. The
shells were bursting everywhere put
they never got anybody in our COM
panv. Never even had man
touched You see there IS not mucn
danger Of anyone getting hurt there.
Once in a while they get some one ny
accident or gas. There is not much
danger in the gas either as we have
masks 10 protect US from that. | have a
of it. If can only get it home Ill
right I'll be all right. ] have some
other souvenirs too ] can't get all Il
them | see for we have so much S1uif
of our own to carry. ! have been
through some Of the towns they nave
destroyed and they are destroyed too.
Everything is gone down houses. trees,
and all. | have been on one OF \he big
battle fields too. 1t was some slSht,
nothing but holes everywhere. 1t IS
awfully muddy here. We had rain
the other night and it still looks Ike
more. I have just had a good shave
and clean up and feel better for 1t.
Life would be wonderful here if 1t
were not for the coolies Nlce). lhPH
bite like thunder and spoil fellows
sleep. Gee it is rather chilly out 20
day and | have lost my gloves TOO.
You know those that father sent, wei
| wore one pair and had the other put
away and somebody took them and !
laid the others down and left them
somewhere. | wish YOU could senu
me another pair of them and pair OF
leather ones. ! may need them any
time at night The days are like sum-
mer. but the nights are cold. Oh yes.
| wish YOU would send some more to-
ibacco. some chocolate or fudge. Gee
lust crave for some all the time.
Well dear, be sure and sent the photo
when YOU and father have them taxi
en-. | will close now hoping this finds
YOU feeling as well as it leaves me-
remain your brother.
FRANK.
Frank w. Hunt.
Co. G.. 1O3rd L. S. Inf.
via New York.
lie Foyer du Soldat
Union ranco-Americaine.
France, Feb. 70, 1918.
Dear Sister: i
lust a line to let you know that
IN, all right. and feeling fine. am
writing this out doors as there arc q
lot Of aeroplanes flying around over
our heads. ! like to see them nght III
tie air so am out side to Watch IL
thew ever come together. Is feilo"9
ara numbered now All they have I"
do is look up the number and hnd out
whose who. ! am going back to night
tho Germans again. l will probably
be out again BY the time you get TINS.
| received fathers letter and the Ken
nebcc Journal the other day. i nearo
that Rasters got in the draft. Do you
ever see him. if you do tell him FOR
mo rot to get scared or white around
the gills as it won't hurt him any
more or half as much as 1T does us
fellows He never will see the front
7 don't believe Even if he does there
is nothing to worry about any way.
How is Willis getting along. l hope
he is well may be UP and see yo"
next Labor day. You don't think co
YOU. I do the way it looks TO me .fro"
what l see and hear. l know the Gee
mans aren't licked yet. but they VII
be before that time. Oh say that Ie'-
low you wanted me to see is not herI
with me. We are not together anu
don't know where each other are elth-
err This is big country you kn'"'
or at least think so by the traVelihs
have done here in trains ana on 1o".,
7 am quite a boy on my rect now.
am used to walking. Well l guess
will close now as there is something
going on around here by the morse.
Don't expect any more mail LOT AZ
least two weeks. l don't think you
will have TO stop writing though. !
have time to read them but none TO
write. Can you get any sweet cnocp-
late or some more Of that fudge.
wish you would send some to me with
the tobacco. Oh. say. the Germans
just got one Of our balloons. Two mer