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Letter from Lovelace Jones home from France 1918
In a long letter dated November 24 1918 Lovelace A Jones writes from somewhere in France to his mother Mrs E M Jones describing long, hazardous movements from Camp Travis to New York to Liverpool to Le Havre Paris and the Argonne and Meuse fronts. He recounts ship convoys shelling near Verdun and St Mihiel and his survival in Death Valley and near Metz. He notes the war ending as he crosses the Meuse at 10 30 and 11 o'clock firing ceasing and reports being in Marville en route to Germany with censoring lifted.
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