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.
Sunday, November 11, 2018
November 11, 1918 -- Armistice Day
Uncle George Stevens Sherwood did not write a letter home on this auspicious day. This was a commemorative Franc that the family had obtained after the war - it was issues in 1920 but is in commemoration of the end of the War. George will resume his letters home later in the week describing the incredible silence he is enjoying now that the conflict is over. Soon he will go back and describe where he has been and done.
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