Show your WWI Studio Photographs

[JMcCulloch]

Navy 

[kaiserdigs]

I don't have very many but here they are. Sadly no names.

[kaiserdigs]

[kaiserdigs]

[Kjeidam]

My G-uncle, Owen Kearns - to the left - and two friends '2' is Jessie (Jesse?) Stogsdill, Missouri, and center is William Talbart (sp) Virginia.

[hink441]

Two young men on the boat. Looks like they are on their way to war. What is the belt they are wearing? 

 

 

[atb]

Looks like the pattern 1903. Not completely sure that's the correct designation, but it's the type that preceded the 1910 model.

[Odile]

A portrait of an as of yet anonymous man. This is some unidentified relative. I thought it was interesting that this portrait and the one posted of Jesse M. Avery of Company M, 119th Infantry, 30th Division, by the NC State Archive (link), seem to have been taken at the same studio, judging by the props (although, perhaps that is making an assumption).

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Supply Sergeant.  In person the collar disc appears to be Company H under crossed infantry rifles

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[easterneagle87]

I posted this one on a different topic, trying to ID his medals. WW1 era Captain. 

 

 

[easterneagle87]

Soldier Andrew Gus Linn (on right), back of photo says:  Taken in Trier?, Germany about middle of July 1919.

 

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Interesting photo!  Know anything about Mr. Linn's service?  Trier was a major installation after WWI, that's for sure.

[easterneagle87]

14 minutes ago, mysteriousoozlefinch said:

Interesting photo!  Know anything about Mr. Linn's service?  Trier was a major installation after WWI, that's for sure.

 

I know nothing about Mr. Linn. I got these at a flea market. Love the uniform shots, pick them up when I find them. 

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Same!  Although I'll admit I do love a name on them.

 

Looking at the Army Transport records, he was in Battery A, 347th Field Artillery, 91st Division going over and coming back.  His parents were Swedish immigrants Andrew and Charlotte Linn.  He was born in Luddington, MI and died in McCloud, CA in 1948.

[easterneagle87]

2 hours ago, mysteriousoozlefinch said:

Same!  Although I'll admit I do love a name on them.

 

Looking at the Army Transport records, he was in Battery A, 347th Field Artillery, 91st Division going over and coming back.  His parents were Swedish immigrants Andrew and Charlotte Linn.  He was born in Luddington, MI and died in McCloud, CA in 1948.

 

That's pretty interesting. Appreciate the info. My maternal grandparents were from Sweden and I lived an hour south of McCloud (BIG lumber town.. typical for Swede's to settle in) for 30 yrs before moving back home to Eastern Washington. 

[Salvage Sailor]

Captain James H. Keeling, US Army, MC (1919)

 

"YANKEE DOCTOR TWICE DECORATED BY KING GEORGE"

 

Captain James H. Keeling, who has been twice decorated by the King of England for his services as surgeon with the British Forces and he was twice wounded in battle.  He was in Europe for twenty months.  Captain Keeling went across with the America Expeditionary Forces and was detailed with the British because they had lost many surgeons.

 

 

HONORED BY BRITAIN.; Sixty-six American Army Medical Officers Get Decorations.

New York Times, March 14, 1919

 

WASHINGTON, March 13.--Sixty-six American Army medical officers and men have been decorated by the British Government for bravery and distinguished service in the war, Surgeon General Ireland was advised today by the British War Office. Major Emanuel Golstein, New York City, and Captain George P. O'Malley, 7,432 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, were made honorary companions of the Distinguished Service Order, and forty-nine Captains and First Lieutenants received the Military Cross. The Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal of Great Britain were conferred upon fifteen enlisted men.

 

Among the officers receiving the Military Cross were: Captains William Lester Smith, Toledo, Ill., and Lawrence M. Taylor, Tuxpam, Mexico, and Lieutenants Thomas E. Griffith, Washington, D. C.: Hugo Alexander, Hoboken; William Andrew R. Chapin, Springfield, Mass.; Fred W. Comstock, New Haven, Conn.; John F. Dooling, Brooklyn; James H. Keeling, Albany, N. Y.: Robert N. MacGuffie, Passaic, N. J.: Winthrop E. McGinley, New London, Conn., and Fenton Taylor, New York City.

 

The bar to the Military Cross was awarded to the following Lieutenants: James B. Clinton, Philadelphia: Lawrence B. Farrior, Mobile, Ala.; Harold E. Foster, Castile, N. Y.

 

Enlisted men receiving the Distinguished Conduct Medals were: James K. Faison, 118th Infantry, and Jacob Semberg, 106th Infantry.

 

[PortraitofWar]

I haven't posted here in quite some time so thought I would share a find from 2025. 

 

Captain Samuel Woodfill, U.S. Army
Often described by General John J. Pershing as “the outstanding soldier of the American Expeditionary Forces,” Captain Samuel Woodfill earned the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on October 12, 1918. Leading his company through heavy fog and enemy fire near Cunel, France, Woodfill singlehandedly attacked multiple German machine gun nests, killing or capturing their crews despite being gassed and exhausted. A career soldier from Indiana, Woodfill had already served in the Philippines and on the Mexican border before World War I, and his calm, precise marksmanship in France became legendary among his peers. After the war, he was personally honored by Pershing and later chosen to represent the U.S. Army’s enlisted men at the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in 1921.

[mysteriousoozlefinch]

Unidentified Marine with Expert Rifleman qualification badge in the 1912 summer khaki uniform (I think, USMC is not my area of expertise).

 

Joseph A. Mehring from Columbus, Ohio, born there in 1888.  He trained with the 158th Depot Brigade before assignment to Company L, 331st Infantry, 83rd Division he fell sick at the embarkation port and was shipped several days after his company.  He was reassigned to Co. G, 329th Infantry and eventually served with Quartermaster Mobile Bath Unit 4.  Taken August 20, 1918 "somewhere in France."  He was a grocer in civilian life and died in 1961.

[aznation]

Nothing special, but here's a soldier in the Signal Corps.