The Milton Acker papers, 1919.

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The Milton Acker papers, 1919.

Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, inscribed postcards. Contains information pertaining to the following war and time period: World War I (WWI). Contains information pertaining to the following military unit and organization: Army Base Hospital #103, American Expeditionary Force. General description of the collection: The Milton Acker papers include personal letters from Milton Acker to Stephen K. Rapp, January 19 and June 13, 1919, briefly summarizing his clerical work in a dental office of an American military hospital in Dijon, France, immediately following WWI.

1 box.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7588629

U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center

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Acker, Milton.

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Milton Acker was a United States (U.S.) Army private who worked as a clerk in a dental office at the Base Hospital #103, American Expeditionary Forces. From the description of The Milton Acker papers, 1919. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 48069069 ...

United States. Army

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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...

Rapp, Stephen J.

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United States. Army. Base Hospital No. 30

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Base Hospital 19 began in 1916, when 11 Rochester area physicians formed a unit of the Medical Corps Reserve. By 1917, when the unit was mobilized, 134 doctors, nurses and enlisted men from the Rochester area were ready. The unit reached Vichy, France, in June 1918, and established Base Hospital No. 19, a 2,000 bed facility. The hospital served over 11,000 patients during the 6 months it operated. Base Hospital 19 was closed in February of 1919, and its members discharged in early May. ...