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WAR HISTORY COMMISSION
STATE OF VIRGINIA
MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
Name in full
(family name): Ferguson
(first name): George
(middle name): Lynn
Date of birth
(month): January
(day): 6
(year): 1898
Place of Birth
(town): Louisa
(county): Lawerance
(state): Kentucky
(country): USA
Name of father: L.B. Ferguson
Birthplace (country): Louisa, Ky.
Maiden name of mother: Lillian Butler
Birthplace (country): Richardson, Ky.
Are you White, Colored, Indian or Mongolian: White
Citizen (Yes or no): Yes
Voter (yes or no): Yes
Church (denomination): Presbyterian
Married: no
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Fraternal Orders: Masonic
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Previous military service or training: none
Education
(Preparatory): 6 yrs Grammar 4 yrs H.S.
(College): 3 1/2 yrs William & Mary
Education
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Occupation before entry into service: Teacher & student
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Residence before entry into the service
(street number):
(town): Williamsburg, Va.
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Present home address
(street number): 1625
(town): Covington
(county): Kenyon
(state): Kentucky
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WAR RECORD
Inducted into service or enlisted on (date): enlisted Feb. 8, 1918
at (place): Richmond, Va.
as a (rank): Private
in the: Engineers
section of the : Regular Army
Identification number:
Assigned originally to
(company): 13th Recruit Co
(regiment):
(division): 83rd
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at (place):
Trained or stationed before going to Europe:-
School, camp, station, ship: Fort Thomas Ky.
From (date): Feb 11, 1918
to (date): May 3, 1918
School, camp, station, ship: transferred to Medical Corps at Camp {?} Penn.
From (date): May 3, 1918
to (date): May 29, 1918
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Company: 13th
Regiment: Casual Replacement Co.
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Date: May 18, 1918
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Promoted:-
From (rank): Private
to (rank): Sgt.
Date: June 29, 1918
From (rank): Sgt.
to (rank): Sgt. 1 cl.
Date: Dec 13, 1918
Embarked from (port): Hoboken
on (ship): Leviathan
(date): May 29, 1918
and arrived at (foreign port): Brest, France
(date): June 6, 1918
Proceeded from : Brest
to: Allercy
(date): June 15, 1918
From: Allercy
to: Toul Sector
(date): June 19, 1918
From: Toul
to: Thiacourt
(date): Oct 31, 1918
Trained or stationed abroad:-
Country: France
Place: Brest
From (date): June 6
to (date): June 15
Country:
Place: Allercy
From (date): June 15
to (date): June 19
Country:
Place: Toul
From (date): June 19
to (date): Sept 8
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WAR RECORD
First went into action (place): Barnecourt, France
(date): Sept. 12, 1918
Participated in the following engagements: St. Mihiel - Meuse-Argonne
Cited, decorated, or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): : none
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
Nature of casualty: none
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Name of hospital: none
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Permanently disabled (through loss of limb, eyesight, etc.) (specify disability):
Arrived at (American port): New York
on (ship): U.S.S. Martha Washington
Date: July 27, 1919
(from): Brest, France
Discharged from service at (place): Camp Mills, L.I.
(date): August 1, 1919
as a (rank): Sgt. 1 cl
RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE
Occupation after the war: Student University of Cincinnati
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process of re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupations::
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?: My attitude was of a duty and responsibility which I of right owed my home and country as well as to very high principle of rights and fair dealing
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself -- mental and physical?: My experience at camps in the US was always most beneficial both in a mental and physical way
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience?: A knowledge that America is the first nation on earth
What effects, if any, did your experience have on your religious belief?: Strengthened my belief in God
If you took part in the fighting, what impressions were made upon you by this experience?:
What has been the effect of all these experiences as contrasted with your state of mind before the war?: To impress me with the fact that a duty and responsibility are best tested by sacrifice and hardship
Photographs-- If possible enclose one taken before entering the service and one taken afterwards in uniform, both signed and dated.
Additional data:
Signed at (place): Cincinnati Ohio
on (date): July 15
year: 1920
(full name): George Lynn Ferguson
(rank):
(branch of service):
The information contained in this record, unless otherwise indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources::
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Transcription:: From March 3, 1919 to July 5 , 1919 I was a member of the U.S. student Det. in British universities and a student in the University of Edinburgh Scotland we returned to the US via Liverpool and Brest
