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James, Earl Ceedric

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Ben Byrnes collection of Earl Ceedric James WWI letters, 1917-1921

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-037
Scope and Contents Letters and photographs from Earl C. James to his mother, Emily James, and sisters Gwynneth James and Daisy James, describe basic service training at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, and his service overseas, where he was assigned to Battery F 5th, Field Artillery. Photocopied correspondence between the U. S. Army and the James family discusses the soldier's death 1919 April 21 and return of his body from Germany to the United States. Earl Jones was killed in a motocycle accident, in Simmern,...
Dates: 1917-1921, undated