Judson W. Dennis
Sergeant, Company L, 119th Infantry
American Expeditionary Forces
March 18, 1892 ~ October 17, 1918
“Well I guess you are reading now about the great drive just made on the Western Front…” Judson Dennis, France Oct .4 1918
October 4, 1918 France
Dear Brother-
I have written you several times and can’t hear from you. I have rec’d only one letter from you since I have been in France and that has been two months ago. Why don’t you write me? You do not know how anxious I am to hear from you, Minnie and the kids. I would very near give my life could I only see the dear little Hazel and Helen.
Well I guess you are reading now about the great drive just made on the Western Front. It will prove the greatest historical event ever pulled off in this world’s wide war. It will mark the turning point of the war- we remember we were the first little American lads to ever plant our feet in the great Hindenburg Line that I’m sure you have read so much about. It is the strongest line on the front. We went over the top and fought like tigers and put those Huns on the run and captured them by thousands. I don’t think it will be long now until we Sammies will be coming home with a victory won. How is every thing at home now? I wish you would write me a long letter and tell me all the news. I’m sending you a souveneir in this letter that I took from a German I captured myself. It is some kind of their money. Show it to the friends and tell them where you got it.
Tom, have you ever disposed of my tobacco yet and how is Old Annie? Or have you sold her yet or not?
Write and tell me all. Well, I will have to go, so write me at once and tell me all the news. Give my best regards to all my friends and tell them I’m doing my bit in this great war. Listen- give J. H. Smith my kindest regards and tell him I will write him sometime and tell him all about this European country and how a soldier kid lives in France. I like France much better than I do the country Belgium.
Ans. soon. Your loving brother, Sgt. Judson W. Dennis
Pride Won, Patriot Lost – Biography of Judson Dennis
Sept. 1917 Letter from Judson in Greenville S.C. to his brother Thomas Milton Dennis in Tip Top Tennessee,
28 Apr. 1918 Letter from Judson to his mother Minnie Dunkap Murphey in Granite City IL
28 Apr. 1918 Letter from Judson to his brother Thomas Milton Dennis in Tip Top Tennessee 28 Apr. 1918
6 May 1918 Letter from Judson to his mother
ca 1918 from Judson in Camp Merrit NJ to his brother
2 June 1918 Letter from Judson in France to his mother
21 June 1918 Letter from Judson in France to his mother
14 Aug. 1918 Letter from Judson in France to his brother
17 Aug. 1918 Letter from Judson in France to his mother
6 Sept. 1918 Letter from Judson in France to his mother
4 Oct. 1918 Letter from Judson in France to his brother
19 Nov.1918 Telegram from Army re Judson’s death
19 Jan. 1919 Letter from Sgt. P. Andrews in France to Thomas Milton Dennis re the death of Judson