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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.
Date: 1918
Item Number: 309338
Call Number: B Boaz, Ernest Leroy *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 309338
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1910s - 1918
Military - Equipment - Uniforms
Military - Wars - World War I
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Postcard
Places - Other States - Florida
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Postcards
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