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Walter Fox letters to his wife, November 1918-February 1919
1918-12-08 Page 1
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Sunday Dec 8th 1918 My Dearest Bess: Well at last I have some thing to write about so I will have to write small or I wont have room. The hospital No 5 is closed and before going to Base 85 I decided to visit Soissons Chateau + hurry etc so on Thursday morning 5 of us started out. Maj Powell of San Francisco, Lieut Reed of New York, Lieut [Kopps?] of Chicago, Lieut [Hunsling?] of Rochester Minn. Our housekeeper or as the French say "Femme de Chamb" who by the way is a very unique old character from Brittany arose before the alarm clock went off and gave us some oatmeal with milk bacon and coffee and we went to the station in time to receive our credentials to make the visit train which left at 7.50 AM. We had in our compartment a French nurse from [Shousheru?] France who spoke English very well and told us of things we saw on the way to Chateau Thierry. There is nothing much of the signs of war until about half way to Chateau Thierry or about 20 miles from Paris where we began to see a few scattered graves and
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Sunday Dec 8th 1918 My Dearest Bess: Well at last I have some thing to write about so I will have to write small or I wont have room. The hospital No 5 is closed and before going to Base 85 I decided to visit Soissons Chateau + hurry etc so on Thursday morning 5 of us started out. Maj Powell of San Francisco, Lieut Reed of New York, Lieut [Kopps?] of Chicago, Lieut [Hunsling?] of Rochester Minn. Our housekeeper or as the French say "Femme de Chamb" who by the way is a very unique old character from Brittany arose before the alarm clock went off and gave us some oatmeal with milk bacon and coffee and we went to the station in time to receive our credentials to make the visit train which left at 7.50 AM. We had in our compartment a French nurse from [Shousheru?] France who spoke English very well and told us of things we saw on the way to Chateau Thierry. There is nothing much of the signs of war until about half way to Chateau Thierry or about 20 miles from Paris where we began to see a few scattered graves and
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