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Letters from Ghas. Bradfield. JMiss Lena Brad field, living north* oast of here, last week received two | letters from her cousin, Charley Bradfield, a soldier boy in France, under datesof September 10 and 18, from which we take the followingextracts:“Received your letter while inthe trenches and was sure glad to j hear from you once more, and that j picture you sent me was fine. j“We were in the trenches about j twenty one days this last time, j We had started out once and were j almost back to camp when the ene- j ray made an advance on our front jand we had to go back and stay two jxaore days and it sure did make old s Jerry mad to be drove back, for he jtried to drive us out of oar trenches j with his shells, but he had awful j poor luck. About dark the last j night he put over a barrage that j lasted one hour and thirty minutes, and we expected that he would try to come over the top after us in the smoke, but he didn’t, and it was best for him th it he didn t. for he sure wouid have received a red-hot reception, for we were anxiously waiting him to come. I would like to tell you more about this place and country, but yon know that we have to be very careful what we write to home folks. I would like to tell you what countries I have been in and where 1 now am, but will do that when I get back home. You spoke of sending me the county papers if I wanted them. I sure would be alaci to get them, for home news is scarce here. As dinner is about ready I will close. Vv rite me as oiten as you get- time.”Br“Will answer your last letter this afternoon, as I am not doing anything and I don't know when I will have time again, for I think we will be having some fun with the Huns before much longer. We are in the trenches, but quite a long distance from the front line, but will soonmove on. I wish we'had some ofyour nice warm weather over hereand vou bad some of our rain. «*•When we first came to this part of the country it rained every day for nine days, and I think it has rained almost everv other dav since; the nigh is are getting rather cool here. From a reading of the names in the popnrs it would seem as though there isn't very many of the boys left around there.“This country is tore to pieces. We passed through a large town while on our wav down here and it looked like every house in the place had been hit by a shell or a bomb and ail the small villages here where the Germans have been are all completely destroyed by shells andfire.“The most of the boys that were with me at Camp Taylor are in the 120th Infantry, and we are close together ; I saw all of them about two weeks ago and they were getting along fine. There is very little of interest to write about. I am sending vou some German monev thato *■one of the German prisoners gave me the other dav. Good bye.”
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Petersburg Pike County Democrat
Petersburg, Indiana, US
Fri, Nov 01, 1918
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