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The USS Aeolus is in the harbor at Brest, France. This Navy transport ship brought 27,000 healthy and wounded men back to the United States after World War I. Hughes, a member of the 13th Field Artillery of the 4th Division, took this photo in July 1919. 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. Hughes fought in the battles of St. Michael and the Meuse-Argonne. He was at Verdun on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918. He took no photos of the actual fighting. He did take many photographs after the war as part of the Army of Occupation until he left France on July 18, 1919. A full biography of James Clark Hughes is available at the link below to Kansapedia.
Creator: Hughes, James Clark, 1888-1964
Date: July 1919
Item Number: 314877
Call Number: James C. Hughes Collection, negative 316
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 314877
Collections - Photograph - Hughes, James C.
Military - Equipment - Ships - Transports
Military - Equipment - Ships - Transports - Aeolus
Military - Service - Army
Military - Wars - World War I
Military - Wars - World War I - 13th Field Artillery, 4th Division
Military - Wars - World War I - Army of Occupation
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph - Negatives - Nitrate
Places - International - France - Brest
Thematic Time Period - World War I, 1914 - 1919
Type of Material - Photographs - Format - Negatives, Film - Nitrate
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