This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Williams, Gilmore, Schafer, West Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AQB.2ACI/203 Message Board Post: Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, September 6, 1917 Now in Canada The following is quite an interesting letter from an old Murray lad, who will be remembered by quite a good many people around here, having worked for the Schafer Bros. and also the West boys. The letter was written to Dr. Gilmore: Aug. 29, 1917, Kendal. Mr. Doc Gilmore. Murray, Nebr. Dear Friend Doc: - You will no doubt be surprised at receiving a letter from me here. However, I have joined the British army and will sail for England next week. We are in camp here doing our preliminary training and are going to finish or training in England and go from there to the front. The food here is rather rough, but after drilling a fellow gets an appetite to eat anything. If I arrive safe in England, I will write you from there. I will have no time to receive a letter from you here, but hope you will write to me in England. Kindly remember me to all the boys in Murray if there are any left there who have not joined the army. This is a very much different country here to what you are used to. Very warm in the day time and cold at nights. We need three blankets to keep warm so you can guess how cold it is. I don’t know weather you remember me or not, but I am the boy they used to call Pat, that worked for the West boys this spring. I certainly do hope that the West boys are d! oing well as I expect to do myself if nothing happens. Also remember me to all the Schafer boys. Trusting that you are doing well yourself and in the best of health. From your friend, Private Mart Williams (known as Pat around Murray), Aldershot Camp, Nova Scotia, Canada Plattsmouth Journal, Thursday, July 18, 1918 PAT WILLIAMS MEETS DEATH IN THE TRENCHES Pat Williams, well known in and near Murray, and Eight Mile Grove Precinct, where he worked for several years on a farm, met death in the trenches on the western front of the great battle ground, May 18th. The news has been conveyed to friends here from Pat’s sister in England. Martin Williams, known by all here as Pat, was born in Cape County, England, and came to this county a few years ago, and when he desired to enlist in the army, he was compelled to enlist in the Canadian forces which he did a year ago. He was killed in the front line trenches on the above date by an exploding shell. Pat was a resident of this county about four years in all, and worked for the Schafer Bros. and the West Boys, out in Eight Mile Grove precinct, where he made a great many friends who will regret to learn of his death. He is the first to enter the service from this county to meet death while in action.