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World War I Collection

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Three buddies on a street in Cairo.
Three buddies on a street in Cairo.
Troop tossing ritual.
Troop tossing ritual.

Troop tossing ritual, 1910 - 1915

 Item
Identifier: 2007.013.1.2.32
Scope and Contents

A group of soldiers pictured tossing up one of their buddies.

Dates: 1910 - 1915
Two buddies near a Cairo railway.
Two buddies near a Cairo railway.

Two buddies near a Cairo railway, 1910 - 1915

 Item
Identifier: 2007.013.1.2.26
Scope and Contents

Two soldiers pose in the sunshine near the tracks and railcars in [Cairo].

Dates: 1910 - 1915

Unknown soldier, US Army 5th Infantry Division WWI diary, 1917-1918

 Item
Identifier: 2009-031
Scope and Contents

1915 pocket diary, repurposed as a journal by an unknown soldier in the US Army 5th Infantry Division. Very brief entries describe his division's constant movement through France, the soldier's experiences being shelled by the Germans, snipers, dead Frencgh civilians in the streets, gas alarms while in the field, sleeping in holes in the ground, meals eaten, etc. Although each entry is marked with day and date, they are often not correct when compared to a perpetual yearly calendar.

Dates: 1917 - 1918

Unknown soldier WWI diary, 1918

 Collection
Identifier: 2009-029
Scope and Contents

Pocket journal or notebook kept by an unidentified AEF Field Artillery soldier/officer, Company A, 114th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, while in France, 1918.

Handwritten contents include: various lists of names of section members, men on specific details, surnames, supplies; disciplinary actions taken; daily schedules and routines; diagrams of manuevers; etc.

Dates: 1918

Wilhelm Forster WWI diary, 1914-1928

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-007
Scope and Contents

Kriegstagebuch or War Diary of Wilhelm Forster, a Lt. in the German Army. Forster received the Iron Cross, 2d Class in 1916.

Dates: August 2 - June 23

William G. Adams WWI ephemera

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-016
Content Description

Ephemera of William G. Adams, 472nd Aero Squadron. Contents include: a pocket memorandum book with handwritten entries made primarily in England where Adams performed maintenance on aeroplanes plus newspaper clippings pasted in; printed program for the celebration of the squadron's one-year anniversary of service, 3 September 1918; and an orange and black felt pennant ("Aero Squadron: San Antonio, Tex") representing the squadron.

Dates: 1918