This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Elliott Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/269 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, August 22, 1918 GLENNE ELLIOTT WRITES HOME [front page] A VERY INTERESTING LETTER FROM GLEN ELLIOTT WHO IS NOW IN FRANCE. HE SEES MUCH OF COUNTRY Been in the Trenches, Now On a Scouting Detachment, Likes It Better. >From Tuesday’s Daily. July 20th, 1918 Dear Mother: I received your welcome letters, one today and one yesterday, and I shall try and answer them tonight. I am well and feeling fine, and have been ever since I have been here. I am not with Company F any more. I am on detached service, with the 2nd Battalion Scouts. I went into the trenches with Company F about three weeks ago, June 26th and saw a little action. It was a quiet sector though, so there was not much fighting. We were back to the rest camp for about two weeks then we were sent up here to another quiet sector. This time I am with the scouts so I don’t have to stay up in the trenches. We are billeted back behind the lines in a deserted French village which is much nicer than the trenches. I have been out on a few patrols into “No Man’s Land” and I rather enjoyed the game. There is not nearly so much danger in it as you might suppose and I like it much better than living in the trenches all of the time. We have guard or fatigue work to do, we get much more sleep than the men in the trenches. I have seen a lot of country since I have been over here as we seldom remain in one place very long. We hike a lot with all of our equipment on our back, and ride in side door sleeper, (box cars) and trucks if we are going far or are in a hurry to get to a certain place. I am rather like the fellow whose letter is in the Journal. I don’t enjoy the scenery when traveling full speed as it is a weary old grind up the said sente [sic] hills, and let me tell you France has many such hills too. One of the fellows in the scouts said he didn’t mind hiking at all while going through towns, where there lots of pretty girls to wave at him, but that he got awfully tired as soon as he hits the country. I’ll admit that does help some but as there is so much more of the country than of the towns, it don’t go very far. The French people always give us a hearty receptio! n where we go, and do lots of little things for our comfort. The French soldiers too are a jolly set and we have lots of fun with them, trying to talk to them. Occasionally I run across one who can talk a little and we manage to get along fairly well. Well, I must close for this time, with much love, Your Son, GLEN. Address: Pvt. Earl G. Elliott, 2nd Battalion Scouts 61st Inft. A.E.F. via New York