The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1919-01-07
Soldiers Letter

Mrs. Harriet McCready, of Vienna,
receives interesting letter from her
son, 'Sergt. Lawrence McCready, Bat
terry C, 310th F. A, A. E. F.:
Roches-Sur-Roynon, France,
December 1. 1918.
Dearest Mother:
Received your very welcome letter
few days ago, which you sent on
Nov. 4. 1t came in good time, about
three weeks, guess it will be about
Christmas when you sc this letter.
Well, now that the war is over, we
will soon come home. I am feeling
fine, my face is red and rough look
ing and l hope this will find you all
well. Very glad to hear that Mat
tie had almost recovered from the
"Flue" when you wrote. but she must
take care and not go out too soon. 1
ones who went out too soou. AS this
is the first letter / have been allowed
to say much in, will tell you about
my trip over.
Wei, as Matte knows, left Camp
Meade on Saturday night, July 18th.
She was there that night. We went
to Philadelphia and boarded the old
ship North Land Sunday afternoon,
and sailed that day. We went to
Halifax and joined % other ships
there and started across. All went
well for over week, when one day
the fun started. About noon we
were attacked by several German
submarines. Gee. that was some e1>
citing time, but with the big guns
which the ships carry they sent
depth bombs at the submarines and
destroyed some, the rest being driven
off. l guess it got a little uncom-
Portable under the water for them,
with Sans bombs bursting so close
| to them We had life boat drills all
| the way across and had to wear our
| life belts at all times. We were IS
| days on board the ship, landing on
the 31st day of July in Liverpool.
/ England, and believe me, / wasn't
! a bit sorry that we landed. For six
teen days we did not see anything
but sky and water, and all kinds of
large sea fish. and meet ship now
and then. From Liverpool we went
to camps from one to another, so
many different ones that can't think
of them all now, but will tell you
more about them when 1 get home.
Anyway, We were kept moving until
we reached Southampton, England;
| there we boarded ship and crossed
the English Channel and landed in
Cherbourg, France, from there to
Montmorillion, then to La Courtine,
then on up here Mamma, sure did
like to stay by those rs m. M. guns
and hear them roar like thunder;we
had to use cotton in our ears to keep
from deafening us. And then my
fine. The officer in charge told us
one day that the best section in the
Battery that week on firing would
get carton of CANNED cigarettes at
the end of the week. The fourth
section, which is my section, won,
and we won for three weeks in sue
cession Some of the other sections
got sore about it, but we were smok-
ing just the same. The reason is
that my men stick together.
Well, now that the war is about
over, I want to get back home, which
I don't think will be so long now.
Tell Matte to look these places up
on the map of Europe and measure
the distance We have travelled. But
I have not told the funny part. Tell
Loley got seasick going over; ask
him if he knows how it feels. Some
one wrote and asked me how
many times I fed the fish coming ov-
er, and wrote back and said I fed
them just as regularly as was fed.
| thre etimes every day, sometimes
more.
Lawrence McCready,
Battery G., 31Oth F. A., A. E. F..