Adolf Heckenbach schreibt seinen Eltern von der Westfront

Adolf Heckenbach (1898-1918), the eldest of seven children, was to take over his parents' farm. Heckenbach was a good student who was raised religiously. The gunner of Field Artillery Regiment 83 regularly wrote letters and postcards from the western front to his parents in Merten. As a "war souvenir" he sent his parents a book "D'arithmétique", which probably once belonged to a Victor Chetivaux f…