did ww1 soldiers get to go home early?

Question

did some world war one soldiers get to get home early before the war ended?

When soldiers would send letters to their wives what did they write on their envelope?

Answer 1

Not really. The war was far more intense than the ones that the world has fought in the last few years.

The number and frequency of casualties made it so that units remained in combat for months at a time, there were no always enough men available to rotate them out.

Also, the idea of deployment times and "going home early" is fairly new. Unless your enlistment time ended (if there was one) or the war was over, most didn't go home.

When they wrote home, they most likely just wrote the address they were sending it to.

Answer 2

Envelopes then were addressed pretty much as they are now. Interesting thing though, mail was heavilly censored. Not only was there no return address in many cases, but actual parts of letters were snipped out. I know this because my geat uncles fought in that war and we still have their correspondence.

Unless one was injured or "shell shocked" one did not "go home early".

Answer 3

They got to go home early to die from the Spanish Flu which killed more American solders than the war. Avoid war.