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Byrnes, Ben

 Person

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Ben Byrnes collection of Henry F. Ayres WWI diary and documents, 1918-1979

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-017
Scope and Contents

Diary of Henry Fairfax Ayers. Diary embossed on cover H.F. Ayres Lt. Col. V.C.A. U.S.A. Includes 3-ring binder of extensive research from Virginia Military Institute. There is a copy of a war time picture of Ayres in the binder, as well as a photo of the painting of Ayres done by Norman Rockwell. There is also a complete hard copy transcription of the diary.

Dates: 1918 - 1979

Ben Byrnes collection of Howe Campbell WWI letters, 1917-1919

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-025
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters and postcards with envelopes. Campbell served in the 302nd Engineers, 77th Division.

Dates: 1917 - 1919

Ben Byrnes collection of James David Martin WWI-era papers

 Item
Identifier: 2013-016
Content Description

Miscellaneous collection of World War I letters, some service record materials, and personal papers.

Dates: 1917 - 1941

Ben Byrnes collection of John Oscar Miller WWI archive

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-044
Content Description Correspondence, press cuttings, snapshots, documents, and memorabilia, all assumed to have originally been pasted onto black paper pages and housed in a post-bound,scrapbook with dark gray, cloth-covered covers. "My Memory Book" is stamped in gold in upper left corner of the front cover. Pages on which items were pasted are extremely soft, powdery and fragile; All items were carefully removed from the pages by archivist. The original order of the items appeared to be destroyed before...
Dates: 1912 - 1921

Ben Byrnes collection of Joshua Randolph Abell WW II letters

 Item
Identifier: 2010-023-1
Content Description

Consists of 27 WW2 handwritten letters and V-mail letters written by Joshua R. Abell, crewman on the USS LST-713 [a Naval tank landing ship commissioned on 7 August 1944. During World War II, LST-713 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater] to his mother Mrs. J. Earl Abell of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Dates: 1944 - 1945

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Type
Archival Object 109
Collection 20
Unprocessed Material 13
 
Subject
World War I Collection 99
World War, 1914-1918. 96
Special Collections -- Scrapbooks -- World War I. 72
World War, 1939-1945 -- Correspondence. 40
World War, 1939-1945. 39
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Asiatic - Pacific Campaign 38
World War, 1914-1918 -- Correspondence. 37
World War, 1914-1918 -- Casualties. 21
World War, 1914-1918 -- Death and burial 16
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs. 9
World War, 1914-1918 -- Diaries 6
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives -- United States. 6
Funeral rites and customs -- United States. 5
United States -- Armed Forces -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc. 5
Camp Travis (Tex.) 4
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- World War, 1914-1918. 3
Special Collections -- Photographs -- World War, 1914-1918. 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- France 3
World War, 1914-1918 -- Manuscripts 3
Armed Forces 2
Military chaplains -- United States. 2
Military hospitals. 2
Postcards -- World War I. 2
Special Collections -- Correspondence. 2
United States. Army. Engineers, 315th. 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- Maps 2
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States. 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives -- United States 2
Brest (France) -- History. 1
Camp Mills (N.Y.) 1
Civilian war casualties -- Laos 1
Medicine, Military -- France 1
Orléans (France) -- History. 1
Photography, Military. 1
Postcards. 1
Special Collections -- Diaries -- Singleton, Jouett Fitch. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Ayres, Henry Fairfax. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Brome, Denton E. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Campbell, Howe. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Clement, Charles G. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Creamer, Ralph B. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- James, Earl Ceedric 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Stewart, Ermon 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Travilla, Thomas H. 1
Special Collections -- Manuscripts -- Ward, Rholie 1
St. Mihiel (France), Battle of, 1918. 1
Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) 1
State governments -- Texas -- Officials and employees. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Photographs. 1
United States. Signal Corps. 1
United War Work Campaign, Inc. -- 1910-1920. 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Artwork 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- France 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Canada 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- United States 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Russia 1
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