Hurst Frazee Garrett letters, 1917-1919.

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Hurst Frazee Garrett letters, 1917-1919.

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Letters written by Hurst Frazee Garrett of St. Louis, Missouri, while serving as a private in the17th Balloon Co., U.S. Army about his activities at Fort Omaha, Nebraska, Feb.-May 1918, and while hospitalized at Ft. Bayard, New Mexico, June-July 1918. Also included are a run of letters to his mother Isabella (Belle) Frazee Garrett in St Louis and sister Theresa A. Garrett in Chicago describing his activities while serving in the convoy section of the American Field Service in France, 1917, typescripts written by Belle Frazee Garrett about her son's experiences while hospitalized, newspaper clippings, ticket stubs, and letters written by Hurst Garrett from Colorado while waiting to be discharged from the Army in the first half of 1919.

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Garrett, Isabella Frazee, b. 1858.

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United States. Army. Balloon Company, 17th.

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Garrett, Theresa A.

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Garrett, Hurst Frazee, 1882-1943

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American Field Service

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The American Field Service (AFS) was founded in 1914 as a volunteer ambulance corps. It served with the French Armies in World War I. In 1939 the American Field Service volunteer ambulance service was reactivated. It served first with French forces in France, then with British forces in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and India/Burma. From the description of World War II records, [ca. 1939-1945] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490917 The American Field ...