Letter signed Pvt. H.W. Westbrook, France, to Eugenia Cayce, 5224 Garfield Ave., St. Louis, March 14, 1918
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- Harold William Westbrook Papers | <emph render="bold">Letters Series</emph> | Letter signed Pvt. H.W. Westbrook, France, to Eugenia Cayce, 5224 Garfield Ave., St. Louis. Explains his job as a switchboard operator in the telephone detail. He greatly appreciates the candy Eugenia sent him, and writes that candy and smokes cannot be bought in France. As he is writing, he describes that they are being shelled, and states, “You can always tell if it [shell] is coming your way by the whistle.”, 1918 Mar 14
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