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Ben Byrnes collection of Chaplain George Copeland WWI archive
Item
Identifier: 2010-054
Content Description
Letters, 2 manuscript books, and copy of Trench and Camp, in very poor condition. Stateside letters from Copeland at Fort Meade
Dates:
1911 - 1950
Ben Byrnes collection of Charles Gaston Clement letters
Collection
Identifier: 2010-055
Scope and Contents
Contains many of the letters of Charles G. Clement home during the first part of his time in the army. Also contains materials noting his mother's search to discover where he was buried and the 1930 Pilgrimage of War Mothers and Widows to visit his grave. There are also some letters to her younger son, Dennis.
Dates:
1913 - 1962; Majority of material found within 1916 - 1919
Ben Byrnes collection of Edwin Conroy WWI correspondence, 1918-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2010-020
Scope and Contents
Letters and other materials from Edwin Conroy, 29th Division. The collection contains a personal account of being gassed, writing a letter from a shell hole, and so on.
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Ben Byrnes collection of Ermon Stewart WWI letters, 1918-1920
Collection
Identifier: 2010-036
Scope and Contents
Ermon Stewart died of influenza which he contracted on the ship while being transported to England. The collection includes Ermon's letters to his mother, a letter from Aunt Maggie to Kate Stewart (his mother), a letter from Kate Stewart to Ermon Stewart, and documentation (concerning his death, his persoanal effects, burial, war risk insurance, and re-burial) from the War Department, American Red Cross, American Legion, Treasury Department, and the American Expeditionary Forces Knights of...
Dates:
1918 - 1920
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 Jouett Fitch Singleton WWI archive, 1898-1932
Collection
Identifier: 2010-040
Scope and Contents
Collection of maps, letters, photographs, and burial records
Dates:
1898 - 1932
Ben Byrnes collection of Leonard H. Urquhart WWI archive, 1916-1941
Collection
Identifier: 2010-026
Scope and Contents
Contains letters, uniforms and miscellaneous materials of Leonard H. Urquhart, of Company F, 2nd Virginia Infantry, and later Co. F, 116th Inf Regt, 22nd Inf Div.
Dates:
1916 - 1941
Ben Byrnes collection of Norman Sweetser WWI archive, 1874-1945
Collection
Identifier: 2010-019
Scope and Contents
Contains Edwin C. Sweetser's 5 volume set of hand-written material in large journals; as well as photographs and letters by and about Norman Sweetser, an American flying a Caproni bomber for the Italians.
Dates:
1874 - 1945; Majority of material found within 1917 - 1918