Owen "Glen" Tudor letter to his mother - January 20, 1918
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Same adress. [January 20, 1918]. Dear Mother, Well, how is your good health? Still very good I hope. I recieved the letters from you & Rachel & Raymond. As I wrote to Ray. I am expecting to leave here shortly. To where I do not know nor when. I am glad for I welcome a change. I hear we are either going to San Antonio Texas, some place in South Carolina or to France. You
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[page 2] can take your choice. I do not know nor do any of the others in the detail here. However, that kind of work is going to be more pleasant that some will be & I think I will like it. we may take places on the new ships. We had a little scare Saturday morning. Friday evening we were given notice that we had to have our barracks bags & shelter half blanket rolls made up in the morning, & be ready
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[page 3] to go down to the engineers at 8:30. We got the dope that it was only going to be an inspection and that we would be back at the battery in a few hours. well, we packed up only what we thot absolutely necessary for the inspection. When we got down there we were halted & put our packs down right behind some other troops who were lined up as we were with their packs on the ground. Well, in a few minutes some army wagons drove up & these other men passed by the wagons & put
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their packs in there. Right there is where we got a jar. We thot that we were next [ms illegible: 1 wd] & that we were going to be hiked off somewhere & all of us had left valuables back at the battery. However, we were merely inspected for about 4 hours and then marched back to our camp. In the 4 hours we had to stand in a good old Ft. Sill dust storm. Ma, I did no tsend th Kodak & post cards as I said I would. I sold the blank post cards & have sent my camera home in my suit case by Express. Be careful of it ma dear for I sure do value it. Your loving son Glen
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P.S. Please put this $10 00 in some safe place for me, ma. Bank, preferably 3rd National. More will follow. Got to have some money when I get back. with love son Glen [January 21, 1918].
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Title | Owen "Glen" Tudor letter to his mother - January 20, 1918 |
Creator | Tudor, Owen Glen |
Source | Tudor, Owen Glen. Letter to his mother - January 20, 1918. Westover, John G., Collection, 1910-1946. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, MO. |
Description | This letter was sent by Owen "Glen" Tudor to his mother while he was training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, on January 20, 1918. In this letter Tudor speculated where he would be transferred to and described an inspection "scare" after which he and his men thought they would be shipped off. Tudor, a Maplewood, Missouri, native, served in the 128th Field Artillery in the 35th Division during World War I. |
Subject LCSH | Fort Sill (Okla.); World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Division, 35th |
Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
Site Accession Number | C3733 |
Contributing Institution | The State Historical Society of Missouri |
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Date Original | January 20, 1918 |
Language | English |