Bates_B2278_F1_044

of the arrival in France after 40th division
but that some were still in England ---
Will Panton my cousin from Montana
(not Kenneth the Surgeon) but a private I
think in infantry wrote his mother that
he had been in the thick of the fighting - :
I think in artillary [artillery] -- but am not sure
but don't know where of course but he
thought the Germans had not got his
number as he got off without a scratch
so far. If only the wretches could be
beated before winter how wonderful it