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World War (1914-1918)

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Cipher Material brought from WWI by Graham, 1916 - 1918

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005220], Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

This file consists of mostly German cipher material.

Dates: 1916 - 1918

Coray S. Brown family photograph collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 35101013592535], Folder: 1-15
Identifier: WLU-PP-0167
Scope and Contents The Coray S. Brown family photograph collection ranges in date from 1875 to about 1960. The collection includes studio portraits and outdoor imagery of the Brown family, friends and acquaintances, groups and outdoor scenery from in and around the Lexington, Collierstown, Murat, North Buffalo, and Oxford Presbyterian Church communities in Rockbridge County. One of the highlights of the collection is Coray S. Brown's photo album which includes images from his time as a student at Washington...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1960

Correspondence 1910-1919

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000006041], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Contains correspondence with Henry St. George Tucker regarding the maintenance of Lexington, Virginia's Col Alto estate, where Hart was residing prior to World War I. Also contains correspondane concerning WWI, including notices of military protocol. The U.S.S. Mongolia and 317th Infantry at Sea, and the medical detachment of which Hart was a part, are topics of interest.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Dale L. Walker Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0334
Scope and Contents

The series contains primary and secondary resources on the Rockwell brothers, Paul Ayres and Kiffin Yates, and World War I aviation history utilized by author and historian Dale L. Walker in his research. Walker has written, among others, Only the Clouds Remain: Ted Parsons of the Lafayette Escadrille, Amsterdam, NY: Alandale Press, 1980.

Dates: 1914 - 1985

Freeman Hansford Hart Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0129
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

G. Raymond Womeldorf Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0530
Scope and Contents George (G.) Raymond Womeldorf was born in Lexington, Virginia in 1893 and raised on the family farm near east Lexington (Va.). He attended Washington and Lee University, graduating in 1917. During that year Womeldorf volunteered to join Washington and Lee University's ambulance unit, which would become U.S. Army Ambulance Service Section 534 and serve with distinction in France. During his deployment, Womeldorf was wounded in the right leg and gassed. He subsequently lost the leg just above...
Dates: 1917-1919

John Alexander Graham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0307
Scope and Contents

This collection includes Graham's compositions, World War I papers and correspondence, memorabilia of Washington and Lee University activities, scores, sheet music, notebooks, and other correspondence.

Dates: Inclusive 1910-1947; Majority of material found within Bulk 1915-1947

John H. Tucker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0008
Dates: 1903-1981

Leon Johenning World War I Map collection

 File
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0100
Content Description

This collection consists of two World War I maps dated 1918. One map is of Commercy, France. The other map is of the Region of Stenay-Souilly in France and is of the "Enemy Order of Battle, 1918 October 30-31."

Dates: 1918

Letters to John from his Father, 1916 - 1918

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005223], Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Letter to John from his father about news in Lexington.

Dates: 1916 - 1918

Maps

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007002], Folder: 28
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

McClung Family

 File — Box 6, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

This folder contains handwritten notes on the family of Julian and Nora McClung, family photos, a notice of military selection, enlistment record, and discharge papers for Julian McClung in World War I.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1700 - 1960

Medical Detachment Ledger, 317th Infantry

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007001], Folder: 27
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Miniature Hamlet

 Item — Box 8: [Barcode: 0000006065], Folder: 39
Scope and Contents

Miniature Hamlet which Hart carried with him during WWI

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Miscellaneous

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007003], Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous WWI material including uniform patches, a pamphlet for the Washington and Lee Victory Alumni Reunion, a small American Flag, a photograph of soldiers, a blank Liberty Loan Bond, a song sheet, inventory and personnel documents, personal items, and a graphic guide to identifying military insignia.

Also included is an enveloped color brochure, "Flags of Our Country, National, State, Historic," published in 1962.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Miscellaneous

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000007004], Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

Roster and other beaureaucratic documents, a song lyric sheet, a description of meals for several days, and a publication titled Bulletin.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Newspaper Clippings

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006056], Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings related to WWI, including local Rockbridge County citizens' experiences, full pages from The New York Herald, the Stars and Stripes, The Bayonet, The News, and The Evening World.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Newton D. Baker Jr. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0020
Dates: Majority of material found in 1905-1925

Notebooks

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006057], Folder: 32
Scope and Contents

Several of Hart's notebooks from during WWI.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Pamphlets

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006058], Folder: 33
Scope and Contents Pamphlets from during WWI, including a book of postcards of Loire Valley castles, a booklet on how to use a device used in the military, a pamphlet advertising WWI war bonds, a service song book, a booklet of prayers issued by the YMCA, a booklet in French titled Evangeline selon S. Marc: La Moisson Près de Bethanie, an Anglo-French phrase book, an active service French book, a booklet of appreciaton for WWI soldiers, a booklet of postcards called Les Américains en France, a pamphlet of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

Paul Ayres Rockwell papers

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0301
Scope and Contents The Paul Ayres Rockwell Papers consists primarily of Rockwell's personal archive and research collection on the history of the French and American volunteer air combat corps, the "Lafayette Escadrille," and the American volunteers of the French Foreign Legion during the First World War. Highlights of this collection include the war period letters to Paul Rockwell from various pilots and related officials of the Lafayette Escadrille, members of the French Foreign Legion and the letters of his...
Dates: Inclusive 1914-1985; Majority of material found in Bulk 1915-1919, 1960-1980

Photographs of Robert P. and James H. Rowan in their First World War uniforms

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0163
Scope and Contents

A real photograph postcard of Washington and Lee University ambulance driver James Rowan (WLU class of 1914) standing in front of his ambulance in France during the First World War. The second image in this collection is of Robert P. Rowan in his military uniform wearing the U.S. Army's Distinguished Service Cross awarded to him for his heroism in combat as a corporal in Company A, of the 116th Infantry. The Rowan brothers were from Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1917 - 1919

Postcards

 Item — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000006060], Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Postcards that are military issued and from different areas of France.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1910 - 1965

The War Years - Official Papers, 1914 - 1919

 File — Box 7: [Barcode: 0000005221], Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This file consists of official documents, such as merandums, official business letters, and reciepts, from John Aleander Graham's war years.

Dates: 1914 - 1919

Unidentified Photographs, 1875 - 1925

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 0000007740], Folder: 22
Scope and Contents

This folder contains unidentified pictures of the Shields family including a portrait of a soldier from the first World War.

Dates: 1875 - 1925