Letter from Clarence Rohlfing
Title
Letter from Clarence Rohlfing
Creator
Rohlfing, Clarence J.
Identifier
T100037
Date
1919 March 10
Description
Letter to Katie L. Ambuehl from Clarence J. Rohlfing requesting information about or word from John P. Ambuehl
Source
Gift of Carol Frost, great-niece of John P. Ambuehl, and Mrs. James E. Higgins, 1981.
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Contributor
Rachel Dark
Language
English
Provenance
Items were saved by John P. Ambuehl and his family, whose descendants donated them as a collection to WWPL.
Text
Bellflower, Illinois
March 10, 1919
Dear Mrs. Ambuehl,
I thought I would write you a few lines today. I have been over to France and just got home the 1st of March. I knew your son John P. Ambuehl. He was the gunner of the squad that I was corporal of. He and I were wounded on the same day and went to the field hospital on the same day in the same ambulance. From there we went in different ambulances to different hospitals. I don't think he was wounded so very bad but I have never heard from him since. I suppose he has written to you.
He and I were very good friends so if he has gotten home, I would like to hear from him. If he hasn't gotten home and you would like to learn more of our life while we were in France I would be glad to write you about it.
Yours very truly,
Clarence J. Rohlfing
Bellflower, Ill.
March 10, 1919
Dear Mrs. Ambuehl,
I thought I would write you a few lines today. I have been over to France and just got home the 1st of March. I knew your son John P. Ambuehl. He was the gunner of the squad that I was corporal of. He and I were wounded on the same day and went to the field hospital on the same day in the same ambulance. From there we went in different ambulances to different hospitals. I don't think he was wounded so very bad but I have never heard from him since. I suppose he has written to you.
He and I were very good friends so if he has gotten home, I would like to hear from him. If he hasn't gotten home and you would like to learn more of our life while we were in France I would be glad to write you about it.
Yours very truly,
Clarence J. Rohlfing
Bellflower, Ill.
Original Format
Correspondence
To
Ambuehl, Katherine L.
Files
Collection
Citation
Rohlfing, Clarence J., “Letter from Clarence Rohlfing,” 1919 March 10, T100037, John P. Ambuehl Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.