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Close up of grave set among ruins of town in France. Two wooden crosses serve as headstones for the same collection of bricks and stone covering the burial plot. James C. Hughes, as part of the 35th Division, left Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and traveled to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he boarded the troop ship "Ceramic" on May 18, 1918. Hughes arrived in Liverpool, England, on June 1, 1918 and then landed at Le Havre, France, on June 9, 1918. A full biography of James Clark Hughes is available at the link below to Kansapedia.
Creator: Hughes, James Clark, 1888-1964
Date: 1918
Item Number: 314609
Call Number: James C. Hughes Collection, negative 120B
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 314609
Collections - Photograph - Hughes, James C.
Military - Service - Army - 35th Division
Military - Service - National Guard - Kansas Army National Guard
Military - Wars - World War I - Army of Occupation
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Negatives - Nitrate
Places - International - France
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Negatives, Film - Nitrate
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