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This sepia colored postcard shows William Lewis Davis from Winchester, Kansas. Davis enlisted in the Kansas National Guard on June 11, 1917 at Oskaloosa, Kansas. He was one of the first soldiers in the Kansas National Guard to die, on August 7, 1918, from injuries suffered in the trenches of the Vosges Mountains in Alsace, France. As part of a federal program that enabled families to repatriate the remains of their fallen soldiers, Davis was brought back from France, on June 5, 1921, to Winchester for burial. His funeral was depicted by high school friend and Regionalist painter John Steuart Curry in the painting "The Return of Private Davis from Argonne".
Date: Between 1910 and 1918
Item Number: 213588
Call Number: World War I. Kansas Soliders Coll. #49.12, Folder Davis, William Lewis
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213588
Collections - Manuscript - World War I
Date - 1910s
Military - Service - National Guard
Military - Wars - World War I
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
People - Notable Kansans - Curry, John Steuart, (1897-1946)
Places - Cities and towns - Winchester
Places - Counties - Jefferson
Places - International - France
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Postcards
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