The north Mississippi herald., 1919-04-18
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were at Merritt six days and on June
the 28th we loaded on the steamer
London Saxon and on the morning
of the 29th we started on the big
trip. Gee that was a long and lone
some ride, days and days passed and
nothing to be seen but the deep blue
sea. The 4th of July came and we
were about two thousand miles from
any where, and days came and went
and believe me they were long ones
too, and finally on the morning of the
twelfth of July we landed in Glas-
gov, Scotland and in the evening at
a p. m. We loaded on a train and the
next day at noon we unloaded at
Winchester, England, and there we
spent couple of days, and on the
morning CT the 18th we loaded on the
train again and went over to South
Hampton, England about a p. m.
The same day we loaded on steamer
and crossed the English Channel, the
next morning we landed at La Haruer
France. We all got unloaded about
10 a. M, and about three p. m. the
rain began to fall and about that
tine we were on a seven mile hike,
and listen it rained on us the whole
way. Believe me the next morning
| was whipped and ready to come
back home, after so long a time | got
my self and at four the same evening
we went back to La Haruer, mad about
eleven o'clock that night we were on
the road some where and no body
knew where we were were going and
finally on the night of the 10th we
landed in La Catene, France, in the
orf Abn
about noon. / was attached to Bat
terry C, 800 F. A. the 82 Division. /
lay around a couple of days and then
was made cook and have been cook
ing the whole time while here, on the
first of August / went on the range
at La Catene and was out there a few
days and on the morning of the 9th
loaded on the train for the front and
on the 10th we unleaded on the
Chateau Thierry front but was only
in there few days, then we got or
ders to go to the Metz section. We
landed there on the night of the 18th
and there we took over that section
and held that front until Sept 18th.
On the morning of the 18th day of
September at IL o'clock we started
a barrage that lasted 72 hours, that's
where 4 thought my time had come.
We mad S-in. guns, Gin. guns, Sin.
guns and 9-in. guns and II IN rifles.
We only had about eight hundred of
them and each gun was tired for ~
nouIs as fast as they could 81 fred
When that afxage was IL q X i y
zantfk vert 3Fez
Mt. Sick the pace the Fra1eh took
m 1914 and held the 8 O. minutes and
lost forty thousand (4O,00O) men.
We did not loose many men. We lost
several balloons while there. We had
several air battles, several air planes
brought down. l saw my first battle
in the air and every night the Huns
would give us a call and bomb us be-
lieve me kid the time was warm. W.
took 1900 prisoners on this front on
the 10th believe we turned this Sec
ton over to the French and from
there we took over the worst sector
on the front and that was the Ver-
dun front, this front you have often
heard and read about. I did not
think that | would ever get away from
there. We had an awful time w tn
them in the Argonne woods, the
battles were awful there. / can't be-
gin to tell you al. If / am lucky
enough to get back, / will tell you
more.
have been over a good lot of Eu-
rope most all over France, through
Scotland and England and in Italy.
| was away on pass fourteen days
think. / had a grand time have
been in several leading cities here.
Bordeaux is the third largest city in
France, and the place where they
moved the capital to when the Huns
were about TO take Paris and that
when the Yanks fell in line that was
July 18th 1918 at Chateau Thierry,
that was big city but when we got
through with it, it was torn to splin-
ters. Lost lots of our boys there.
have not heard from George though
he is o. k. He is in the army of oc-
cupation now and VIII not be home
soon.
think l will be home by the last
of May, am almost sure Had a
letter from mamma in January. She
heard that | got wounded, / am al
right now, and hope will land home
safely.
'Ts getting late and / will have to
quit for this time. Hope you will
pardon me for not writing you no
more than / have. Hoping this will
reach you and find you all we'll.
With lots of love to all,
Your brother,
PVT. HARRIS G. MOORE,
Bat. c., 800 F. A., A. E. F.
A. p. @. TAP. Franco