Moving on

05.12.1918 Letter from Alfred Forbes Johnson to wife Essie: We are allowed to say almost anything in letters now.

Tomorrow we are moving on and I shall have a long day with the caterpillars. The opinion seems to be that we are not going on to Germany at all but are going to fetch up somewhere in Belgium.

Have you secured a vote and do you intend to use it? The bill giving a vote to the Army seems a complete farce. image: US Secretary of War riding an artillery tractor in July 1918 picture: US Library of Congress http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.28122

06.12.1918 Letter from Alfred Forbes Johnson to wife Essie: We are going on Sunday and will trek about 20 miles a day for five days. We expect to have a more interesting time in Belgium as we shall be in civilisation once more.

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