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1898 Selby

Letter to Mother

February 22, 2019May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"I wrote you a long time ago that I got your box from Scotland. It was awfully good of you Mother dear to think of me like that. I nearly cried." Continue reading...

Letter to Dad

February 21, 2019May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"We have been having a lot of inspections for cooties, or anything else. There seems to be some mistake about disease among the people at home. There is very little anywhere as far as I know." Continue reading...

Letter to Ruth

February 15, 2019May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"Just because I have not written to you lately is no reason that you should not write to your big brother over here in France but I suppose you are busy at school." Continue reading...

Letter to Mother

January 28, 2019May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"They are having church in our Y so I came over here. This is a much better Y anyway. They serve hot chocolate. Yes, actually give it away free." Continue reading...

Letter to Dad

January 8, 2019May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"I have been away at gas school for three days. Had a very nice rest. Not much drill and the change does a lot of good. Very instructive too." Continue reading...

Letter to Dad

December 30, 2018May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"I have a wife and son which is more than all the money in the world. I have been in exile for some eight months. I have had a lot of time for thought." Continue reading...

Another Letter to Mother

November 30, 2018May 2, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"There are a couple of kids (soldiers) outside chasing another soldier with big sticks. They are trying to make him sign the armistice. I wish they would be quieter." Continue reading...

Joan of Arc

June 16, 2018May 6, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"Are camped where Joan of Arc was born?” Continue reading...

Letter to Ruth from Camp Dodge

April 12, 2018November 29, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"I think I will go abroad this season. Don’t you want to go along?" Continue reading...

Networking, Camp Dodge style

March 15, 2018November 29, 2019 / jpwest13 / Leave a comment

"Third innoculation for Typhoid" Continue reading...

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