George must have decided that he needed a little bit more spending money while still somewhere in France. He is sending $1.50 less each month back home. He was probably trying to be more frugal than it turned out he needed. The family also received an allotment probably because of the loss of his help on the Farm. I know that in the past the funds he sent home was meant to go into savings for his future. But he always made it clear that they were too use this money if they ever found themselves in financial straits of any kind.
Great Uncle George sends letters home from his enlistment in Illinois until the boys of the 108th Engineers came home in June of 1919. Goal is to post his letters one hundred years to the date he wrote them. He was writing to his Dear Ones at Home and until Armistice he was just "Somewhere in France." Before he went to France and after Armistice he provides first hand reports of his experiences of WWI.
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