Thomas Knowles collection 1917-1919 Knowles, Thomas collection

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Thomas Knowles collection 1917-1919 Knowles, Thomas collection

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This collection contains 24 letters, 18 postcards, and 1 greeting card that Private First Class Thomas Knowles of New Bedford, Massachusetts, sent to Ruth Blaisdell of Waltham, Massachusetts, while he served with the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during and just after World War I. Knowles described his experiences while serving at the front with the 101st Engineer Regiment, while recuperating from an injury, and while traveling in France, Luxembourg, and Germany with a military unit attached to a press corps.

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

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Thomas Knowles of New Bedford, Massachusetts, joined Company C of the United States Army's 101st Engineer Regiment, 26th Division, before September 1917, and traveled to France later that month. In mid-1918, he was injured in active combat at the front, and spent around two months recovering in military hospitals. In the fall of 1918, he was assigned to press "section G 2-D" at headquarters in Paris, and traveled with the section's field headquarters in France, Luxembourg, and Germa...

Knowles, Thomas

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