This is a postcard showing Earnest Leroy Boaz who served during World War I. The photograph was taken while he was in France. While there, Boaz contracted mumps and spent 29 days in a hospital. He was born while the family was living in Cheyenne County, Nebraska and they later moved to Kansas. Boaz was living in Papillion, Nebraska and working as a farm laborer when he registered for the draft on June 5, 1917. Later, he was employed as a civilian guard at the Topeka Army Air Base (later Forbes Air Force Base) during World War II and Hill's Packing Company before moving to California.