Around Kansas - Honoring WWI Heroes - November 9, 2016
(Frank) Aren't you happy, here we are again? Anyway, Veterans Day is coming up and there are a lot of veterans’ activities and I know you've got one that you need to tell us about. (Deb) Well, my dear friend, Jeanne Mithen marks the graves of the World War I dead at the Historic Topeka Cemetery and those markers, there are bios of these men and one woman, are actually going up today. I believe they'll be on display through the 21st so we're going to take a look at some of these. They break your heart; they just break your heart. These are actually people who died during service. Some from the flu, some from combat and other situations. It's just heartbreaking but it's so important while we're in the hundredth anniversary of World War I, especially relevant these days, it seems, the situation around the world. This is a really important one and hope you can get out to the Historic Topeka Cemetery and take a look. (Frank) That's, if you don't know for sure that's at 10th and California. (Deb) Right. I-70 to California, then 10th to California. Right there. During the one-hundredth anniversary of the Great War, volunteer Jeanne Mithen has been honoring Topekans who died during their service by posting their photos and a short biography at their gravesites in Historic Topeka Cemetery. Most of these young men and one woman were not combat casualties, but as in most wars, sickness was the greatest enemy. It is proper that we take the time to recall them and their sacrifice. Most were first buried in France and later returned to America. Some, like Henry Walsh, were never returned, and a memorial bears his name. Also, Phillip Billard was a test pilot and when he died in a plane crash, his family buried his ashes in his grandmother's garden in France. John Oscar Akerstrom died in 1918 from wounds sustained in one of the final battle of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, just a dozen hours before the Armistice. Floyd Webster Bailey, born in Agra, Kansas, died in training in September of 1918 of complications from the Spanish influenza and resulting pneumonia at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois. Seaman Kenneth Lynde Barber, Foster Raymond Bradfield, William Henry Cummickel, Ralph Raymond Doidge, Robert Thomas Melton, and Virgil Eaton died during training of complications from the Spanish influenza. Frederick Joseph also died from Spanish influenza and rests in the Jewish Section without a headstone. Medical Corpsman Harold Rosen Olson died from cerebral spinal meningitis in France and Frank Asbury Pavey died of TB and measles at Camp Funston. Lyman Rice died from dysentery and pneumonia. Charles Erickson died from pneumonia and shrapnel poisoning sustained during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. LeRoy Evans was killed in action on August 31st, 1918. Aurie Earnest Fager died from wounds as a result of machine gun fire in November 1918 at a Base Hospital near the town of Barricourt, France. William Klinge died of pneumonia while training in Texas, January 1919. Ernest Fred Moneypenny was accidentally shot in France. Fay Sarah Freidberg died from disease on December 30, 1918, of complications from the Spanish influenza and resulting pneumonia in Washington, DC while she was working with the Casualty Division of the Adjutant General's Office, War Dept. On the Shawnee County Victory Highway Memorial, Fay is recorded as the only Shawnee County woman member of the Department of War to have died in the Great War in the Service of the United States. She is buried in the Jewish Section of Historic Topeka Cemetery. Jesse Gilliland died in October 1918, after being gassed and wounded during the opening stages of the Meuse Argonne Offensive. Fred Lloyd Jones died in August 1919, from pneumonia contracted on board ship during his return from his participation in the AEF offensives of the Western Front in France. Theodore Leslie McNeeley was killed in action on September 16, 1918, in a direct hit from a shell on the front line of the most advanced and exposed position being held by the 353rd Infantry during the St. Mihiel Offensive. Kenneth Sutherland was killed in action 17 July 1918 in the Alsace, France. William Swan died from wounds sustained in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in October 1918. Albert Thompson Jr died during training in San Antonio in July, 1919, of cancer. He had already served one tour of duty in Europe. As we mark Veteran's Day, November 11, let us recall their sacrifices, and those of their families, and the millions who died around the world in those dark years a century ago.
1918-19 Military Hospital; Wounded w/ Nurses 221781-06 | Footage Farm
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[WWI - 1918-19, France: Military Hospital Construction; Wounded w/ Nurses; Sec. Baker, Gen. bliss]
Dijon, France. View into tent as officer w/ goatee bandages hand of injured soldier.
03:13:38 Two Black (?) soldiers, one limping walk thru yard of stacked lumber w/ hospital (?) barracks under construction behind. Pan prefab trusses. MS 6th Engineers surveying on hospital site as men work unloading lumber, pounding w/ sledge hammers & putting up walls.
03:14:45 Two officers pose among workers. Sentry outside entrance
03:15:08 Rimacourt hospital Interior, pan patients in beds, playing guitars, etc. Visited by French General.
03:15:51 Ext. nurse w/ French & ?? officers posing, laughing.
03:16:07 Stretcher & injured carried out, put on cart, shakes hands w/ nurses & many carts & stretchers wheeled to troop train & loaded aboard railroad passenger cars. Truck w/ walking wounded arrives & men helped down & onto train.
03:19:06 CU map of Sommedieue area & pencil moved along front line (?).
03:19:38 LS from top of hill overlooking hospital complex w/ Red Crosses on top of buildings.
03:19:56 Sentry box & soldier / guard of 5th Marines w/ bayoneted rifle. LS across open area to two story building w/ Red Cross on roof, injured walking; troops marching. MCU receiving treats from Red Cross worker. Officer writing letter (?) as soldier w/ arm in sling dictates & women watch.
03:21:47 Paris. Nurse sits down beside soldier on stretcher smoking cigar in sunshine. Fluffs pillows for others. Soldier whittling on end of crutch. CU nurse laughing. Pan row of nurses outside stone building to military officers on parade ground receiving decorations. Talking w/ US officer.
03:24:30 Civilian wedding couple out of Hotel de Ville in Chaumont, walk beneath raised rifles, followed by other military & civilians w/ French officer & bride, pose.
03:25:14 Soldiers walk on grounds of YMCA (?).
03:25:37 Secretary of War Baker & Army Chief of Staff General Tasker Bliss visit patients at Vittel & Le Bourget. Large number of officers out & down steps. Orchestra / band playing in front of hospital w/ Baker & Bliss sitting listening, military standing behind. Pan nurses seated & standing.
03:27:05 MS Baker & woman; General Bliss & young woman pose talking. Baker standing behind group of seated patients. Talking w/ troops in uniform.
03:27:54 Baker & Bliss w/ other officers leaving hospital & into large US Army car w/ military driver..
03:28:22 Pan over town rooftops at base of mountains.
WW1; 1919; Military Relaxing; Tobacco Promotion; Nursing;
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Army | National Guard | 35th Infantry Division | Historical
1918 historical film of 35th Division Soldiers while in France.
Scenes of Soldier activities.
The 35th (Infantry) Division is part of the Army National Guard, organized during 1917, at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma, with troops from Missouri and Kansas.
The 35th Division participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive from Sept - Nov, 1918, then deactivated in 1919, only to be reconstituted in 1935. The Unit served, with a brief interruption, until deactivated again in 1963. On August 25th, 1984, the 35th Infantry Division was reactivated and federally recognized at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Santa Fe Division (nickname)
During WW1, the 35th Division arrived at Le Havre, France (May 1918); spent ninety-two days in quiet sectors; five in active sectors; advanced twelve and one half kilometres against resistance, captured 781 prisoners, and lost 1,067 killed, and 6,216 wounded.
One officer within the the 35th Division was Captain Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States, who commanded Battery D of the 129th Field Artillery Regiment.
During WW2, the 35th ID arrived in England (May 1944), then landed on Omaha Beach, Normandy 5–7 July, entering combat on 11 July, fighting in the Normandy hedgerows north of St. Lo.
More recently, the division provided headquarters control for National Guard units deployed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
A detachment of the 35th ID was the headquarters element for Task Force Falcon of Multi-National Task Force East (MNTF-E) for the NATO Kosovo Force 9 (KFOR 9) mission. The 35th provided command and control from November 2007 until July 2008, when they were succeeded by the 110th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, Missouri Army National Guard.
Credit National Archives.
35th Division after the collapse at Meuse-Argonne (1918)
Scenes from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, showing the 35th Division, American Expeditionary Force, shortly after the collapse of the division during the Meuse Argonne Offensive.
Filmed on October 18, 1918 by 2nd Lt. Edwin F. Weigle and his camera operator Pvt. Thomas J. Calligan. Copied for research purposes.
Some of this footage has also been identified in the Signal Corps Collection of the National Archives, record number 111-H-1416, online at
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