Mischnitsche bei Smorgon, 10 october 1915
[*1]
Dear mrs Limbach!
After a long time I have finally found the time
to reply to the letters.
Then I would like to ask you to please send my
warmest congratulations to Fritz on his birthday.
Just as things here are quieting down after 2
months it apparently flares up in the West.
I hope the English and Frenchmen did not get to
our Fritz, so that he can spend his birthday in the field cheerful and in good
health.
I would like to report in more detail from
here, but just as we had settled ourselves here for the winter the order came
to move again. As soon as we have gotten ourselves a real home for the winter
longer reports on the very tiring but also interesting journey via Kowno [Kaunas/Lithuania] and Wilna [Vilnius/Lithuania] to here will be written.
With warm greetings to the whole household I
am,
Your
W. Benzenberg
Walter was
stationed on the Eastern front, and Fritz often wrote that the post to and from
there did not arrive. So the news of Fritz’s death did not reach Walter before
this letter was written.
He was a Gefreiter
in Reserve Feld-Artillerie-Regiment nr 66,
under the command of 80 Reserve-Division.
http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/80._Reserve-Division_%28WK1%29
[*1] Smorgon is now Smarhon, Belarus
The original letter:
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