Letter home on expeditionary forces notepaper, May 1917

• May 22, 2018 20:29:26 Thomas A. Lingner

  On Active Service

  Y.M.C.A. WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

  
  

  Sunday 20th May 1917

  My dear Mother and Father,

  I am afraid you may be getting anxious about me

  as I have not been able to write you for a week.

  I sent you a post card on Tuesday last I believe.

  Since then many things have happened. We went

  into the line that night in a very hot place

  of which you have read a good deal in the papers.

  We were not in proper trenches but in little holes

  in a sunken road and so-on. The village

  we were facing had changed hands many times

  but on our side the Germans still held it and

  their strong posts were very active with machine

  guns and snipers. My Batt received orders 

  to attack and finally clear the Huns out, and at 

  2 o'c on Thursday morning we went over the top.

  It was very dark as you may imagine and dirty

  work too. It was raining and the ground

  we had to go over was a mess of shell holes.

• May 21, 2018 22:54:24 Thomas A. Lingner

  On Active Service

  Y.M.C.A. WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

  
  

  Sunday 20th May 1917

  My dear Mother and Father,

  I am afraid you may be getting anxious about me

  as I have not been able to write you for a week.

  I sent you a post card on Tuesday last I believe.

  Since then many things have happened. We went

  into the line that night in a very hot place

  of which you have read a good deal in the papers.

  We were not in proper trenches but in little holes

  in a sunken road and so-on. The village

  we were facing had changed hands many times

  but on our side the Germans still held it and

  their strong posts were very active with machine

  guns and snipers. My Batt received orders 

  to attack and finally clear the Huns out, and at 

  2 o'c on Thursday morning we went over the top.

  It was very dark as you may imagine and dirty

  work too. It was raining and the ground

    was a mess of shell holes.  

  
  

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• March 13, 2018 08:27:43 Jessica Adkins

  On Active Service

  Y.M.C.A. WITH THE BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

  
  

  Sunday 20th May 1917

  My dear Mother and Father,

  I am afraid you may be getting anxious about me

  as I have not been able to write you for a week.

  I sent you a post card on Tuesday last I believe.

  Since then many things have happened. We went

  into the line that night in a very hot place

  of which you have read a good deal in the papers.

  We were not in proper trenches but in little holes

  in a sunken road and so-on. The village

  we were facing had changed hands many times

  but on our side the Germans still held it and

  their strong posts were very active with machine

  guns and snipers. My Batt received orders 

  to attack and finally clear the Huns out, and at 

  2.00 on Thursday morning we went over the top.

  It was very dark as you may imagine and dirty

  work too. It was raining and the ground

    was a mess of shell holes.  

  
  

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