Two Brothers Serving in France, item 36
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422964 II Cpl. W. S. Anthony
1st Siege Co., R.A.R.E.
B.E.F., FRANCE
Monday
28 : 4 : 19
Dear Mother,
Once more I have pleasure in
writing you a few lines from sunny France.
I am still going on well, and getting the
time filled in not so badly. Since last
letter I've had another motor-lorry trip -
this time to the town of St. Quentin, which
you will remember was mentioned very often
during this war. One of our lorries was
going down there with a Frenchman`s flitting,
and the officer very kindly allowed me to
go with the driver, to see the country. St.
Quentin is about 34 miles south of
Cambrai, and we passed through a district
which has seen some of the hottest conflicts
of the war. At one time it has been a
pretty countryside, but now all the villages
are in ruins, and the fields cut up with
trenches and disfigured with barbed wire.
In these places the main road has been
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422964 II Cpl. W. S. Anthony
1st Siege Co., R.A.R.E.
B.E.F., FRANCE
Monday
28 : 4 : 19
Dear Mother,
Once more I have pleasure in
writing you a few lines from sunny France.
I am still going on well, and getting the
time filled in not so badly. Since last
letter I've had another motor-lorry trip -
this time to the town of St. Quentin, which
you will remember was mentioned very often
during this war. One of our lorries was
going down there with a Frenchman`s flitting,
and the officer very kindly allowed me to
go with the driver, to see the country. St.
Quentin is about 34 miles south of
Cambrai, and we passed through a district
which has seen some of the hottest conflicts of the war. At one time it has been a pretty countryside, but now all the villages are in ruins, and the fields cut up with trenches and disfigured with barbed wire. In these places the main road has been
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422964 II Cpl. W. S. Anthony
1st Siege Co., R.A.R.E.
B.E.F., FRANCE
Monday
28 : 4 : 19
Dear Mother,
Once more I have pleasure in
writing you a few lines from sunny France.
I am still going on well, and getting the
time filled in not so badly. Since last
letter I've had another motor-lorry-trip - this time to the town of St. Quentin, which you will remember was mentioned very often during this war. One of our lorries was going down there with a Frenchman`s flitting, and the officer very kindly allowed me to go with the driver, to see the country. St. Quentin is about 34 miles south of Cambrai, and we passed through a district which has seen some of the hottest conflicts of the war. At one time it has been a pretty countryside, but now all the villages are in ruins, and the fields cut up with trenches and disfigured with barbed wire. In these places the main road has been
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422964 II Cpt. W. S. Anthony
1st Siege Co., R.A.R.E.
B.E.F., FRANCE
Monday
28 : 4 : 19
Dear Mother,
Once more I have pleasure in writing you a few lines from sunny France. I am still going on well, and getting the time filled in not so badly. Since last letter I`ve had another motor-lorry-trip - this time to the town of St. Quentin, which you will remember was mentioned very often during this war. One of our lorries was going down there with a Frenchman`s flitting, and the officer very kindly allowed me to go with the driver, to see the country. St. Quentin is about 34 miles south of Cambrai, and we passed through a district which has seen some of the hottest conflicts of the war. At one time it has been a pretty countryside, but now all the villages are in ruins, and the fields cut up with trenches and disfigured with barbed wire. In these places the main road has been
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Cambrai, France
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St Quentin, France
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Document location Cambrai, France
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Additional document location St Quentin, France
- ID
- 5196 / 59003
- Contributor
- Tony Burns Langenegger
April 28, 1919 – April 28, 1919
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