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Elgin Echo in Elgin, Iowa

30 Jan 1919

Page 4

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Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 30, 1919

Page

4

Christmas Mail From the Front In France and Germany

A wartime letter collection details Christmas provisions from the YMCA and Red Cross for soldiers in France, real payouts of pay and money issues, and a crew awaiting movement in December 1918. Charlie Habegar describes truck and tractor transports to Toul and Brive, shortages, and hopes for home. Don Strauch writes from Trier about travel through Prentin, Treves, and Germany, salvaging a broken truck and bivouacking in a German deer garden near Trier.

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Bologne Braincourt Charlie J. Habegar 318 Field Artillery France W. Hughes Don Strauch Vavincourt Bar-le-Duc Meuse Préentin Luxemburg Esch America M. Thoma Max Prentin Treves Germany Here Lorraine Trier
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Entire Herd of Grade Holstein Cows and Heifers

Dow writes from war time life detailing a small group planning a Christmas feed with borrowed money and household goods. He mentions not being paid, sharing shortages, and a plan to dine by a cliffside river location. He signs as Private Donald W. Strauch in the Third Army Air Service.

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Atsl Tliry Rembercourt Y. MC. A Red Cross Helen John C. O Monelle River France Coblens Rhine U. S Third Army Dow Donald W. Strauch Air Service A.B
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