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WAR HISTORY COMMISSION
STATE OF VIRGINIA
MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
Name in full
(family name): Graham
(first name): Hal
(middle name): Gordon
Date of birth
(month): December
(day): 15th
(year): 1895
Place of Birth
(town): Graham
(county): Tazewell
(state): VA
(country): USA
Name of father: S. M. Graham
Birthplace (country): America
Maiden name of mother: Margaret Crockett
Birthplace (country): America
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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Previous military service or training:
Education
(Preparatory): High School
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Occupation before entry into service: Transitman
employer: J. P. Willings Jr.
Residence before entry into the service
(street number):
(town): Graham
(county): Tazewell
Present home address
(street number):
(town): Graham
(county): Tazewell
(state): Virginia
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WAR RECORD
Inducted into service or enlisted on (date): July 25 1917
at (place): Richmond
as a (rank): Pvt.
in the: Sanitary Detachment
section of the : 1st VA
Identification number: 1290594
Assigned originally to
(company): Sanitary Detachment
(regiment): 1st VA Infty
(division):
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Trained or stationed before going to Europe:-
School, camp, station, ship: Camp McClellan, Ala.
From (date): Sept 27, 1917
to (date): June 10, 1918
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Transferred to:-
Company: San. Det.
Regiment: 116 Infty
Division: 29th
Ship:
Date: Oct. 4, 1917
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Promoted:-
From (rank): Pvt.
to (rank): Pvt. 1cl
Date: Dec. 1917
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Embarked from (port): Hoboken, N.J.
on (ship): Finland
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and arrived at (foreign port): St. Nazaire
(date): June 27, 1918
Proceeded from : St. Nazaire
to: Champliteanea
(date): July 4, 1918
From: Champliteanea
to: Belfont Arg
(date): July 28, 1918
From: Belfontanea
to: Vudin
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Trained or stationed abroad:-
Country: France
Place: Champliteanea
From (date): July 4 [1918]
to (date): July 28 [1918]
Country: France
Place: Bonbon Lis [illegible] [illegible]
From (date): April 15 [1918]
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WAR RECORD
First went into action (place):
(date): July 28th 1918
Participated in the following engagements: Defence of Centea Sector Haute Alsace
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): :
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
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Under medical care:-
Name of hospital: Mesnes Fulsey
Location: Mesves
From (date): Oct. 4, 1918
to (date): Nov. 2, 1918
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Permanently disabled (through loss of limb, eyesight, etc.) (specify disability):
Arrived at (American port): Newport News
on (ship): Matsouiq
Date: May 20, 1918
(from): St. Nazaire
Discharged from service at (place): Camp Lee VA
(date): May 27, 1919
as a (rank): Pvt, 1 cl
RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE
Occupation after the war:
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?:
What were the effects of camp experiences in the United States upon yourself -- mental and physical?:
What were the effects upon yourself of your overseas experience?:
What effects, if any, did your experience have on your religious belief?:
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?:
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): Camp Lee VA
on (date): May 26
year: 1918
(full name): Hal Gordon Graham
(rank): Pvt. 1 cl.
(branch of service): Medical Corps
The information contained in this record, unless otherwise indicated, was obtained from the following persons or sources::
