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WAR HISTORY COMMISSION
STATE OF VIRGINIA
MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
Name in full
(family name): Cox
(first name): William
(middle name): Junkin
Date of birth
(month): September
(day): Sixteenth
(year): 1896
Place of Birth
(town): Portland
(county): Multnomah
(state): Oregon
(country): U.S.A
Name of father: Lewis Berkeley Cox
Birthplace (country): Virginia - U.S.A
Maiden name of mother: Elinor Jackson Junkin
Birthplace (country): Virginia - U.S.A
Are you White, Colored, Indian or Mongolian: White
Citizen (Yes or no): Yes
Voter (yes or no): Yes
Church (denomination): Presbyterian (Southern)
Married: Yes - Jan 15
year: 1921
at: Leesburg, Loudoun Co, Virginia
To (maiden name): Lee Edwards
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at: Leesburg, Virginia
Children
(name): None
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College Fraternities: Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Beta Kappa
Previous military service or training: Citizen's Training Camp, Asheville N.C. - July 1914
Education
(Preparatory): Lexington, Va High School
(College):
Education
(University): Washington and Lee
(Degrees): B.A, B.S in Civil Eng.
Occupation before entry into service: Student
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Residence before entry into the service
(street number):
(town): Lexington
(county): Rockbridge
Present home address
(street number): 635 Euclid Avenue
(town): Baltimore
(county): Baltimore
(state): Md
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WAR RECORD
Inducted into service or enlisted on (date): May 15, 1918
at (place): Camp Lee, Virginia
as a (rank): Pvt, 1st Cl
in the: Engineer
section of the : National Army
Identification number: Unknown
Assigned originally to
(company): B -
(regiment): 4th Eng'r Officers'
(division): Training Camp
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(ship):
at (place): Camp Lee, Virginia
Trained or stationed before going to Europe:-
School, camp, station, ship: 4th E.O.T.C - Camp Lee, VA -
From (date): May 6, 1918
to (date): June 29, 1918
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Company: C
Regiment: 605th Engrs
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Date: June 29, 1918
New Location: Camp Forrest, Ga
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From (rank): Pvt 1st Cl
to (rank): 2nd Lt. Engrs, N.A.
Date: June 17, 1918
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Embarked from (port): Hoboken, N.J.
on (ship): U.S.S George Washington
(date): Sept. 30, 1918
and arrived at (foreign port): Brest, France
(date): Oct. (21 ?) 1918
Proceeded from : Brest France
to: (Taconnay?),Haute Marne, France
(date): October - 1918
From: (Taconnay?) France
to: Veuxhaulles, Cote d'Or, France
(date): Dec. 1918
From: Veuxhaulles, France
to: Montpellier, France
(date): Mar 1, 1919
Trained or stationed abroad:-
Country: France
Place: Montpellier
From (date): Brest, France
to (date): July, 14 1919
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WAR RECORD
First went into action (place): Never
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Participated in the following engagements: None
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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Under medical care:-
Name of hospital: None
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Permanently disabled (through loss of limb, eyesight, etc.) (specify disability): None
Arrived at (American port): Hoboken
on (ship): U.S.S. Zeppelin
Date: Aug, 2 1919
(from): Brest, France
Discharged from service at (place): Washington, D.C.
(date): Aug, 12, 1919
as a (rank): 2nd Lieut, Engineers, N.A
RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE
Occupation after the war: Civil Engineer
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:: X
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
What was your attitude toward military service in general and toward your call in particular?: Satisfactory
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself -- mental and physical?: Not very decided one way or another
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience?: Grew rather lazy in the winter following the armistice
What effects, if any, did your experience have on your religious belief?: None.
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?: Think rather less of the army owing to belief that it cramps individual initiative, but think fault inherit in nature of military discipline and not to be particularly charged up against our enemy
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): Baltimore, Md.
on (date): July 10,
year: 1922
(full name): William Junkin Cox
(rank): Late 2nd Lieut,
(branch of service): Engineers -
The information contained in this record, unless otherwise indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources:: Personal memory. I regret the soiled condition of this blank, which reached me in a roundabout way and in its present state. W. J.C.
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Transcription:: [Sepia photo] Smiling man in military uniform, hands on hips, and hat resting on left hip area. Standing on muddy roadway in front of plants and a building to the left.
