Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-25
VALLEY YANk
WRITES LETTER
FROM HUNLAND

1 Germany" the epresent whereabouts
of the American doughboy. in his
march on Berlin, letter was re-
| ceived here today by Mrs. w. I. Bra
dy of Calipatria from her son, Pri'
vate Percy rBady. who is member
of the Army of Occupation.
In the letter he gives an interest.
ing account of the battles which led
to the downfall of Kaiserism. 1t is
as follows:
'Dredenhofen, Dec. /, 191S.-Dear-
est Mother and All: At last / can
write and tell you little bit about
where am at and what have been
doing since | left the good old U.
S. A. I guess you suspected / stayed
couple of weeks in England after
getting torpedoed. l was at Dover,
England. We were fine looking
bunch when we got off the destroyer
in England
"Then we went to Calais, France;
and then we started to wander. I've
seen nine-tenths of France and part
of England At present we are IN
Lorraine, the country Germany took
from France about forty years ago.
We are in town called Diedenhofen.
It's not a very big place.. although
it has big name. If you get big
scale map you can see it. 1t is due
north of Metz.
"Well, Mother, l can also tell you
about the battles / was in, but
don't want to write it all. l want
to have something to tell about when
l get home. In the envelope you will
find small clipping on the last bat
lie l was in. We went over the top
twice in two weeks, and we sure
showed the Dutchmen what the
Yanks could. do. We captured 5000
prisoners in two days. We had the
military police taking them back IN
companies 2OO) and battalions (8eO)::
There were so many we had to send
them over the hills. We couldn't
take them over the roads because they
were blocking the traffic.
"But the worst battle ! was in
was called the Vesle, on the Chateau
Thierry front. The Boche did every
thing he could think of to stop us,
but we drove them across the river
and over the hill. Then we crossed
the river after them, but we got wet
doing it. -.
II could sit and write for hours if
l wanted to, but Pm hoping to be
home to tell about it before long.
"The three hard battles / was in
were the Second Battle Of the Marne,
the Vesle on the Chateau-Thierry
front, and the Argonne Forest.
"Well, Mother, l will change from
Europe to North America. How are
all the folks at home? Believe me,
I'm going to talk to the girls for
not writing, when I get home. How
are T. Tells and Bill?
"You will wonder why l am writ
ing so much, but the Fourth division
(my division) is one of the best In
France, so 1 can't help writing a
little about it, but will now close. l
can write oftener now than l have
been doing, so expect letters more
reouently. So by-bye. Love to all.
I am always,
"PERCY."
Germany, Dec. IL, 1918.-Dearest
Mother and All: Just few lines to
YOU to let you know l am still .. X.
and in good health. l am in Ger
many about up to the Rhine riVer.
I am in town called Summeon. 1t
is a pretty good sized place, but towns
"over here" are so different from
those in the United States. The peo-
ple don't know what a good sidewalks
is in the smaller towns, and the
streets are all so narrow.
81 don't know what the people
think of us, but they treat us decent
enough. Some towns don't seem to
care that we whipped them, and
in other towns we come to we can
see that the people are not SO very
fond of US. But on the whole we
can't be worried.
"Well, Mother, I've written about
all | can think of, but there is one
thing that | want to write: ! got
back two letters that | had written
to YOU in August. They had been
all over the States and to the Dead
Letter Office in Washington. And
they were forwarded to me from
there. So now you can see why you
didn't get more letters from me
1t said on the envelope that the let
tiers had been uncalled for.
"Well Mother, it is getting close
to supper time, so l guess l vii
close.
"Give all the folks my love, ant
kiss T. Tills for his Uncle Percy. Bt
sure and write often and I'll write
every chance / get. So, by-bye. Lot!
of love to all. am,
"Your loving son,
''PERCY BRADY"