The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-30

| are working hard, and L think that the
| boys will all come home with smiles
if they happen to hear this song for
they will then know that you have
thought of them so far away from the
pleasures of life, also so near the dan
gers of war
1t was only a few nights ago that
received your paper from Brattleboro
and we were all surprised to see so
many names on the honor roll of our
old home town, and we were lust as
much pleased to hear it, for it was not
| SO many years ago that we had a hard
time to get 90 men to volunteer in our
old company | to fill up the ranks. and
to think now that the old town has
| furnished our Uncle Sam with 400 TO
600 men, we know that this was diff
ferent proposition.
There is one more item that could
be added to the last letter that I wrote
for it tells you of few more battles
that we were in, where that other list
| only told the sectors and main battles.
THIS IS the general order that we
have received and l had not seen it
until today so here it is and you will
all be interested [ know:
Headquarters Goth division, Amer
lcan Expeditionary Forces, France,
November Is, 1918.
General Orders No. 104.
II. Officers and enlisted men of the
10th division, | congratulate you upon
your success III the war which has lust
! Deen brought to victorious end.
z. From your entry into the battle
line on February 9TH, 1918, at Chemin
DIES Danes as a division of recruits
| until the cessation of hostilities on the
18th of November 1918, when you laid
DOWN your arms fighting in the front
ines as veteran division, you have
shown yourselves worthy sons of the
country that gave you birth.
"3. In the battles of Bots Bruls,
Appremont, Seicheprey, Xivray-Mar-
vosin on the Toul sector, Battles of Tor
y, Belleau Givry, Bouresches, Hill 100,
Epeids, Trugny in the Chateau-Thier-
y drive Battles of the Saint Mihiel
Salient and Verdun were Bots d'Hau-
1ont, Bots Belleau, Bots d'Ormont,
| Bots de Vile which are indelihly writ
ten on your banners.
F. S. BANFoRD.
Brigadier General, Commanding. :"
| Now that | have written everything
that IS of interest at present viii close
as | cannot tell you when, we are com
ing home or where we are going, but
| 1t is safe bet that we will all be glad
when we can blow back to Brattleboro
and look once more at all the old fam
| liar faces of our friends and the loved
ones we all left behind. Wishing YOU
all the best of luck for prosperous
| New Year..
PAT.
Headquarters Horse Battalion, 10lst
Ammunition Train, Goth Division,
| A.E.F..
| Marcilly, France. Jan. 10.
| Editor of The Reformer:
| You and of course all the people of
| Brattleboro know only too we'll who
and what the Goth division consists Of
You know that we are all or mostly
all boys from New England states and
also that lot of us are from that little
city on the banks of the Connecticut
Iriver known as Brattleboro.
| You also know how we are longing
to be back there, also how the mothers
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the boys over here that are in the Y
D. or Goth division are longing for our
return to them and to our old town.
You all know what we have done and
how we have done and done it well
too, also that it has not been a pleas
ure trip but a long hard Job and a
man S job, which took courage. Now
hat we have done our bit we are wait
| ing patiently to sail back to the land
that we will never forget
Now perhaps you have all heard, but
here it is all a Hunch, but don't spoi
it by cheering too much for the boys
viii like to hear your voices when they
get there to see you all. We are com
ing home soon and it won t be so long
as you all think, so don't fool your
selves by thinking that we are in Ger
many, for we are not.
Yours /. NJ. Right.
PAT
MARKEDLY, France, Jan. 10.