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Studio portrait of Ivan Lon "Ike" Dump in U.S. Army uniform, WW II.
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Soldiers gathered in front of barracks at Camp Hale.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of Gene Slaughter, most likely during military training for World War I.
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MacDonald Knight on his way back to camp after being on furlough, 1942. The photo was taken at Loveland Pass.
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Group photo in 1917. Bill Luby is standing back left.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Photo postcard of Roy McDougall on right, and friend, in France during World War I.
Eagle Valley Enterprise Mar. 14, 1919 p.1: "Roy McDougall arrived home from overseas Sunday night. He went across the big pond last July, and at the time the armistice was signed the artillery contingent to which he belonged had just been equipped for front-line service. He was an ammunition truck driver in his battery. He is looking as fit as a fiddle, and while...
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Photo postcard of Charles Crawford, in Army uniform, training South Carolina, for World War I.
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Photo postcard of Earnest A. Cook, in Army uniform, training at Camp Dix, New Jersey, for World War I.
On the back, he writes: "Dear Sweetheart, This picture isn't very good as there is too much light on my face and it blurred across my eyes. Will have some better ones taken before I go across. Be good, Dearie. Yours lovingly, Earnest. That stern look is necessary when we stand at attention."
10) John Norton
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Photo postcard of John Norton, in Army uniform, training for World War I. He's posed in front of an American flag.
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Verso: "Mom at Gilman with Harold Stoner home on furlough." Sophie Knight and Harold Stoner are posed next to an automobile.
"Harold was a good friend of my brother Don. So there was work at the mine and Harold boarded with us. So I guess he was really 'home' on leave!" -- letter Nov. 25, 2013, Betty Jo Schmidt to Jaci Spuhler
12) Ivan "Ike" Dumph
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Ivan "Ike" Dump in his Army uniform during World War II, including a regulation special issue sweater,
13) Charley Dump
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Portrait photograph of Charley Roy Dump. "Charley left home to join the Army at age 17. He later joined the Air Force and proudly served his country for 31 years. He retired in 1975 as the youngest Air Force Warrant Officer ever appointed. ... In his youth he was an avid skier, and was selected to compete, as an alternate for Downhill and Slalom for the 1948 Olympics Team in St. Moritz, Switzerland." -- obituary 2003
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Ellis Bearden, in uniform, standing with his stepmother, Elizabeth Diamond Bearden. Ellis's mother, Maude Lewright Bearden, died in 1933, leaving three sons with husband Roland J. Beardon. Roland and Elizabeth were married in 1939.
15) Ellis Bearden
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Studio portrait of Ellis Bernard Bearden in Army Uniform. He served with the 3rd Armored Field Artillery Battalion during World War II, fighting for 21 months in Germany and France. "He told friends about being caught in Belgium, in the Battle of the Bulge, just days before Christmas. The Allied troops were surrounded by Germans, and the cloudy weather prevented planes from providing air support for days. Bearden talked of his joy on the day the...
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Theodore "Bud" Beck on leave from the Army, October 1944, standing in the Beck's yard. The house in the background burned down. Tib Montoya was living in it at the time.
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Clipping from Zinc Magazine [[no date] "Thomas E. Knight, Watchman, Gilman; MacDonald, Army."
"J'ai decoupe ca dans le journal de la cie de Gilman pour vous faire voir Tom. [Micheline Knight] [I've clipped this from the Gilman Company magazine so you could see Tom.]
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"Our Boys," in the Army, marching in a parage at Boulder, Colorado, 1918.
19) Willis H. Staup
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Willis H. Staup, born August 18, 1895, in Whitewater, Colorado. His family moved to Gypsum in 1903 and operated the Gypsum Hotel. Mr. Staup was inducted into the army on 20 October, 1917, and saw service in France and Germany. He was discharged April 29, 1919. Willis was the son of W.T. and Lovella Staup. He married Pearl Mitchell on the 25th of December in 1919. He later worked as an electrician for Eagle River Electric Company.
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1944: Fifteen ski troopers in mid-ground, skiing. Carrying packs and ski poles. Additional figures in background.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
