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Ben Byrnes collection of Aubrey C. Ross WWI letters, 1903-1970

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Identifier: 2010-041
Scope and Contents Correspondance of Aubrey C. Ross, a chaplain who served with the Y.M.C.A. through the Army's 79th Infantry Division during World War I. In addition to the 104 letters exchanged between Aubrey and his wife, Laura L. Ross, during World War I, the collection includes correspondance between Ross and various members of his immediate family from 1903 to 1970. The majority of the Rosses were Missouri farmers, and even Aubrey, who lived in New Yok until the 1940s, held a deed to farmland in...
Dates: 1903 - 1970
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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

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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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Ben Byrnes collection of James David Martin WWI-era papers

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Identifier: 2013-016
Content Description

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

Dates: 1917 - 1941
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

Ben Byrnes collection of John Oscar Miller WWI archive

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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
Found in: The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library, Department of Special Collections & University Archives

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Abell, Joshua Randolph, 1925-2003 1
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Charles Apfelbaum Rare Manuscripts and Archives 1
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Fort Andrews (Boston, MA) 1
James, Earl Ceedric 1
LST-713 (Ship) 1
Marston, Rumsey Bissell, 1895-1964 1
Martin, J. D. 1
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Ross, Aubrey C., 1882-1965 1
Singleton, Jouett, 1895-1918 1
Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) 1
Stewart, Ermon, 1893-1918 1
Sweetser, Edwin Chapin, 1847-1929 1
Sweetser, Norman, 1894-1980 1
Travilla, Thomas Hastings, 1890-1975 1
United States. Army. Signal Corps. Field Battalion, 315th. 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Ambulance Service, 579th 1
United States. Army. Ammuntion Train, 53rd 1
United States. Army. Chaplain Corps 1
United States. Army. Division, 29th 1
United States. Army. Engineers, 302nd 1
United States. Army. Field Artillery Regiment, 60th 1
United States. Army. Field Artillery Regiment, 68th 1
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United States. Army. Field Hospital, 310th 1
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United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 114th 1
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 312th 1
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 328th 1
United States. Army. Sanitary Train, 303rd 1
Urquhart, Leonard H., 1896-1958 1
Ward, Rholie Jett, 1883-1968 1
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