While it is well known that the 1973 fire destroyed many military service records of WWI army and air service veterans, it is possible to use a number of alternate records in order to rebuild and document the military service of individual WWI veterans. Bringing together all of the military ...
The documents include name, next of kin, service details, wounds suffered and conduct record. The records will provide information on soldiers who served in military service between 1914 and 1920. 60% of the service records of the 5 million soldiers involved were destroyed in a 1940 German ...
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SC., and muster rolls told more about his service. He enlisted on 25 May 1918, and on 8 July 1918 he was appointed a Wagoner in the Supply Company of the 2nd Pioneer Infantry Regiment. From US Army Transport Service records, confirmed by Find A Grave, his...
One of the scholars who did not shy away from the story was Antony Sutton, author ofWall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, whose meticulous research of State Department documents, Canadian government records, and other historical artifacts pieced together the details of Trotsky’s unlikely journey...
Here in Texas, a frequent trade good encountered in the old Spanish-era records is the Belduque, an enormous knife. The northernmost frontier of New Spain/Mexico saw employment of lances, the espada ancha (short sword), knives and daggers of all kinds, axes, hatchets, leather buff coats ...
The records state the fléchettes made thin but deep wounds. Although Fléchettes were primarily used early in the early part of WWI, some were still being used as late as January 1917. The British found them to be unsatisfactory as the flechettes had to score a direct hit. However, once...
Photo: National Archives and Records Administration There were other monumental tasks on the American military’s to-do list: Deepwater ports had to be prepared in southern France for the troop ships that would soon ferry U.S. troops and tons of supplies across the Atlantic Ocean. Field ...
(Venn) [No mention of war service in records – SJW] Goodwin, Harold Desborough Born July 28, 1890, at Ilfracombe, Devon. Son of Albert Goodwin, RWS. Charter- house School. Admitted as pensioner at Trinity, June 25, 1908. BA 1912. Lieut., Middlesex Regiment, 16th Battalion. Killed ...
The GRS eventually moved the bodies to an American military cemetery in Europe or shipped them back to the United States. France, in particular, asked that the burial sites be consolidated. Throughout the process, the GRS continued to care for the bodies and kept identification records. ...