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The reason I didn't want you to send me a watch, that they are so easy to brake [sic]. It is awfuly [sic] hard to get repairs for a watch over here. We have about the same old grind every day now, mostly infantry drill. We have pretty fair sleeping quarters here. We are staying in a town (Sommdiere [sic]) evacuated by the French. We have the whole town to ourselves, that is the regiment. We are about eight or ten miles south east of [illegible]. Our motor equipment is beginning to come in, so I guess we will be motot equiped [sic] before comming [sic] home. I am figuring on a furlough some of these days, and I will try and have some pictures taken. You know that a kodak would come in very handy now since the war is over. I a few postcard views I will put in the letter.
Your Brother
Corp. James A. Ingels.