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George W. Sadlo WWI journal, 1918-1921
Collection
Identifier: 2011-018
Scope and Contents
Small journal, kept in a German pocket notebook, with handwritten entries by George W. Saldo while en route to and in France during the final months of the war; entries continue for several months following the Armistice. George W. Sadlo served as Musician 1st Class in the HQ Band GHQ (Chaumont, France), the 133rd Infantry Band, and the the 4th Infantry Band. Other items laid in includ 2 b/w snapshots of military bands on the march; postcard from Amra McDowell addressed to Geo. Sadlo...
Dates:
1918 - 1921
Harvey D. Higley WWI-era field notebook, approximately 1909-1921
Collection
Identifier: 2005-020
Scope and Contents
American artillery field notebook, alphabetically tabbed, with typed and handwritten notes by various hands; photographic portrait of Major Harvey D. Higley; press clipping.
Dates:
circa 1909-1920
Hugo August "Hap" Gruenberg WWI archive, 1917-1972
Collection
Identifier: 1991-008
Scope and Contents
Consists of the personal ephemera and photographs of Private 1st Class Hugo A. "Happy" Gruenberg of Ambulance Company 167, 117th Sanitary Train, 42nd (Rainbow) Division, American Expeditionary Forces.The personal ephemera includes Gruenberg's diary kept during 1917-1918; soldier's pay record book; Gruenberg's dog tags and brass key on a leather thong, as well as one pair of regulation leather leggings; photocopied press cuttings of Gruenberg's obituaries and memorial and funeral...
Dates:
1917 - 1972
Leo McCusker WWI diary, 1918
Item
Identifier: 2009-032
Scope and Contents
Pocket diary of Captain Leo McCusker (US Army, HQ Troop, 4th Div) dating from May 6 through September 26,1918. The diary begins with McCusker's boarding ship for England. It continues with excellent detailed descriptive accounts of battles (including September 25th battle on Hill 304), German bombing and shelling raids, the elaborate German dugouts, dead and wounded on the battlefields, prisoners of war, etc at and near the Front in France. It also includes his experiences in various...
Dates:
1918
Leslie Arthur Jenner WWI diary and ephemera
File
Identifier: 2007-015
Scope and Contents
45-page diary from 1918, handwritten, army registration form, typed and handwritten, certificate of demobilization, typed and handwritten, letter in response to resignation, article on L.A. Jenner.
Dates:
1918 - 1945
Louis Vogel WWI diary, 1918-1919
Item
Identifier: 2009-030
Scope and Contents
Diary of Sgt. Louis Vogel, US Army, with entries about his experiences beginning from his departure from Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma in May of 1918 through his service in France near the Front, and up to his return to the US in May of 1919. The diary entries actually begin on the pages for May and continue through December, then resume on the pages for January (1919). PLEASE NOTE: It is not always clear where entries begin and end as they often continue through many dates as one...
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Perry Douglas Erwin WWI-era letters, 1918-1919
Collection
Identifier: 2007-009
Scope and Contents
Perry Douglas Erwin was a soldier during World War I who was stationed at Ft. Sill in Oklahoma. During his time as a lieutenant in the 9th Field Artillery during World War I his wife wrote to him nearly every day. The Erwin letters, dating January 1918 through January 1919, consist primarily of (173) letters from Erwin's wife, Vivian (living in Oswego, Kansas) to Erwin (stationed at Fort Still, Oklahoma and other locations); other correspondents include Erwin's sisters Harriet, Dorothy,...
Dates:
1918 - 1919
Robert Alfred Doring WWI archive, 1887-1939
Collection
Identifier: 2003-008
Scope and Contents
Archive of Robert Alfred Doring, a non-commissioned officer in the Schutzen-Fusilier Regiment, Prinz Georg (Koniglich Sachsisches) Nr. 108. Born in Wermsdorf, Germany in 1887. Survived the war and was awarded a certificate of 25 years service (Leipzig) by the German Chief of Presidential Chancellery [Otto Meissner] in 1939. Archive includes a war diary, Doring's National identification book, his military identification booklets, several military certificates, a letter, 4 photo-postcards,...
Dates:
1887 - 1939
Rowland C. Taylor WWI archive, 1914-1918
Collection
Identifier: 2001-023
Scope and Contents
Includes a flight log book, a detailed diary of his POW experiences, and various photographs, service documents and POW ephemera.
Dates:
1914 - 1918