. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... o go on leave, and during the remainder of our stay in Francemost of the men Avho desired to visit places Avliicli they had notyet seen Avere able to do so. Christmas time was appi-oaching and as our wereAvandering to our homeland and our families, Ave had io nud^ethe Holiday Spirit here in this little French village to driveaAvay our lonesomeness. Through contributions to our messfund Avhich had recently l)een received from oui- fiieuds in theTelephone Company at home, avc had abundant funds
. Memories of the "411th" Telegraph Battalion in the World War here and "over there" .... o go on leave, and during the remainder of our stay in Francemost of the men Avho desired to visit places Avliicli they had notyet seen Avere able to do so. Christmas time was appi-oaching and as our wereAvandering to our homeland and our families, Ave had io nud^ethe Holiday Spirit here in this little French village to driveaAvay our lonesomeness. Through contributions to our messfund Avhich had recently l)een received from oui- fiieuds in theTelephone Company at home, avc had abundant funds Io pur- 126 MKAIUIJIHS OF THE illTlI chase the wherewithal. A committee was appointed to lookafter the arrangements and the Mritei will tell abont theresnlt by reprodncing a letter written by him a few days afterto the fi-iends at home wlio helped to make it all possible, asfollows: Christmas With the 411th Of conrse, at this Chi-istmas time our thoughts were withour folks at home, and we were all longing for the day to comewhen we Avould again tramp on our native soil and l)e able to. GEOKGK AV. Second L/ieut. Sigiial Corps assigned to llllh .Januar\1919 at Fravaux. ME rSE-ARGON X E 127 stick our feet under the table with our own home peo[)le. How-ever, do not think for a minute that we hid ourselves away withour secret yearnino and let the day ^o by without I have told you in a jtrevious letter, Fravaux is a verysmall village of fifty-two inhabitants when everybody is athome; just now there are eight people away (French soldierswho have not yet been discharged from the army) and the re-mainder of the present jiopulation is made up of oiu- organiza-tion. You will readily understand, therefore, that we had tonuike our own Christmas celel)ration. We have a very good barracks building which we had setaside as the dining- room; each company having- their fieldkitchen in opposite ends of the building. A Christmas connnit-tee was appointed and the dining hall wa
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