The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-12-26
News of Kenosha County

Xmas with her parents Mr.. and Mrs.
F. Bowman in Wilmot
Mrs. Bernice Drom returned from an
extended visit in Sharon Monday.
Mrs. A. Voltz entertained her son
William of Great Lakes, Xmas day.
Miss Zepp left for her home in Ed
gar Saturday to spepd the Xmas va
cation.
Nov. 20, 1918.
Dear Father
/ received dandy letter from you
day before yesterday, also a letter
from Vera. Last Sunday was the day
that all soldiers should have written
their fathers letter. I did not find
that out until this morning SO this be-
ing Thanksgiving Day, I shall try and
make amends.
Now that the censorship has lifted
enough SO that you can state your
location | shall endeavor to relate to
you some of my past history. On July
2Srd, we left Camp Mills, about one
O'Clock in the afternoon and proceeded
by rail through the eastern states to
Boston, boarded the boat about two
O'Clock the morning of the Oath, and
awaited its moving out. We left Bos-
ton Harbor about nine O'Clock that
morning with only one small yacht for
protection. This stayed with us for
about one day and then we were alone.
The night of the second day out we
could see land ahead and the next
morning when we woke up we found
ourselves in Halifax Harbor. We re-
manned there for couple of days and
more transports kept coming in. Final
ly, in the afternoon of the second day
in Halifax Harbor we started moving
out, ten ships in all in single file. We
could. hear the big guns booming as we
passed through the English Channel,
but instead of going direct to France
we went up the Thames river disembark-
ed Aug. 8th, at a London dock. Real
interesting going through the locks.
We were then loaded on to a train and
little engine pulled us down to Win
chester, which used to be the capital of
England, were we got off and hiked
about five miles to camp. We remained
here three or four days and. then went
down the road on a twelve mile hike
TO South Hampton. We arrived there
IN the afternoon an boarded a good
American boat "Gale'' this boat used
to do excursion work around San Fran
cisco. That night and the next morn
ing found us across the Channel in the
LIE Havre harbor, France. We got off
again and hiked about five miles to an
other camp. We stayed here about
three days and then hiked back to down
town again where we got on train and
away we went. After several DAYS of
travelling we got off the train at Veau-
CUES and hiked about mile to Jalogne.
stayed there quit while and then NOV
ed again about eight miles, later re-
turning to Veagues. We STAYED here
quite time and it was interesting to
see good American trains going through
with American soldiers aboard. We
finally left there, getting on the train
late ore night on our way up nearer
the front. We moved along at pretty
good clip all that night and next day
but came to halt during the next
night as there was a German air raid
on at Nancy. We arrived next morn
ing at Maron and stayed here for about
q week. During this time we saw
German airplanes and kept busy dodg-
ing our aircraft guns when ever they
attempted to cross the lines. We also
enjoyed the boom of the cannons as
every night the sky was brilliantly
illuminated by their fire and the ground
sort of quivered every time they split.
The next night after the German
ENJOYS passed through our lines the
Yanks certainly got busy with the big
ones for especially that night the noise
was most terrific, and the sky was
one red flare. Quite few Of our men
went up into the trenches from this
place, in fact, we shipped men from
our division into most all the first army
divisions on the firing line. The fam
GUS Wisconsin and Michigan, 80 divis-
ions was kept up to fighting strength