Tag: WWI

PATRON + Red Cross in Civil War? – No such thing

(Transcribed from The Weekly Herald (Wetumpka, Alabama, December12, 1918) CONTRAST RED CROSS OF 1918 AND HORRORS OF CIVIL WAR TIMES Survivors of 1861 Battles…

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I wonder if Zelda Sayre was in this league and met F. Scott Fitzgerald through it

June 4, 2019 May 24, 2019by Donna R Causey

GIRLS' PATRIOTIC LEAGUE ALABAMA The Junior branch of the National League for Woman's Service, Montgomery, the Girls' Patriotic League, was active during 1917-19, organized…

Essential book for WWI genealogy research in Alabama

April 22, 2019 May 26, 2020by Donna R Causey

This KINDLE book includes all the deaths from World War I, listed by the county where they last resided, over 60 pages of names.…

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Did you know The Great Gastby author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, served in WWI? He was in the 167th Infantry based at Camp Sheridan, Alabama

January 4, 2019 December 22, 2018by Donna R Causey

Camp Sheridan While based at Camp Sheridan in Montgomery, Alabama during World War I, the famous author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, met and fell in…

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The Montgomery Motor Corps was made up entirely of women

August 12, 2018 July 30, 2018by Donna R Causey

THE MONTGOMERY MOTOR CORPS The Montgomery motor corps was a department of the National League for Woman's Service, organized by Mrs. William J. Hannah,…