Morton Givin letter to Mrs. Rumbold - December 26, 1918
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A.P.O. 743 France. December 26, 1918. My dear Mrs Rumbold, I cannot tell you what a pleasure it was to receive your kind card for Xmas and coming as it did just at this time away over here I shall treasure it as one of my best remembrances. We of the 128th have made some wishes also since the later part of September but so far they have not come true but
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[page 2] we will continue to hope and wait and some of these days when things again become normal there will be a reckoning. Of course I refer to the Colonel and believe me when I say that the whole regiment are still loyal and only wait for a chance to try to repay a little of what our Colonel has done for us. What a wonderful army it would be if all the officers were like him.
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[page 3] Such an army could defeat Germany and all the other Allies with ease. Were it not for him there would not be any 128th, and the fighting spirit they showed in those hellish days in the Argonne, as due to the force and leadership and courage which he made us younger officers feel and pass on to the ranks, under us. There is many a long evening spent pleasantly
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[page 4] By the old members of
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| Title | Morton Givin letter to Mrs. Rumbold - December 26, 1918 |
| Creator | Givin, Morton. |
| Source | Givin, Morton. Letter to Mrs. Rumbold. 26 December 1918. Rumbold, Frank M., General Collection. A1331. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Letter from Captain Morton Givin of the 128th Field Artillery to the wife of Colonel Frank M. Rumbold thanking her for the service of her husband and how he has influenced the 128th Field Artillery. Frank Meeker Rumbold served as Colonel of the 128th Field Artillery during World War I. He later served as Adjutant General of Missouri from 1925 to 1927. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918--Correspondence; United States. Army. Division, 35th; Argonne |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I; United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 128th; Campaigns/Battles - Common names [Meuse-Argonne Offensive] |
| Site Accession Number | A1331 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | December 26, 1918 |
| Language | English |