Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

War letter from Private Timothy Mahoney
1918-07-20
Mahoney, Timothy
FRANCE
Paper
overall: 9 1/2" x 6"; 16 x 25 cm.
Gift of Eva M. Mahoney
A80/004/1

A letter dated July 20, 1918, from World War I Private Timothy J. Mahoney. Mahoney served with the 302nd Infantry Regiment as part of the American Expeditionary Force. Private Mahoney describes his arrival in Europe. Written on Knights of Columbus War Activities letterhead.

Object labels, “’Americans, Do Your Bit’: World War I in Posters” Opened 3 June 2017 Letter to Pat from Timothy Mahoney, July 1918 France Gift of Eva M. Mahoney, A80/004/1 In July of 1918 Timothy Mahoney (b. 1896) wrote to his brother, Patrick, who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about his journey overseas on stationery provided by the Knights of Columbus. He noted that his trip was “tiresome” and the weather was “hot as blazes” but “the scenery in Europe is certainly great.” He also told his brother that he would “like to say a whole more but we are forbidden to mention much as to the censor.”