Holmes, Wilbur Kenneth
survey sheet - handwritten

 

 

Date of Enlistment: June 22, 1916
Military Camps to which went:
* McAllen, Texas
* Plattsburg Officers' P.T.C.
* Camp Wadsworth, S.C.
Units to which belonged:
* 104 7a[rtillery?], 27th Div.
Date of trip overseas: June 30, 1918
Service there: July 12, 1918 to Mar. 4, 1919
Date of return: Mar. 13, 1919
Date of demobilization: Apr. 1, 1919
Honors received: --

 

 

NOTES
Picture Postcard of National Guard Unit, McAllen, Texas, 1916 (Flickr.com)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobswanson/7835713836/

A.E.F. Officer Training at Plattsburgh, New York: The Brain-Child of Major
General Leonard Wood [article], Vanity Magazine, 1917 (Old Magazine
Articles)
http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/Pre-WW1_Plattsburg_Training_Camp_for_American_Officers

The Plattsburgh Movement: Where Pershing Found His Officers (Roads to the
Great War)
http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2013/07/where-did-general-pershing-find-all.html

Tent and Trench: A Web Site Dedicated to the Memory of Camp Wadsworth,
Spartansburg, SC (SC History.net)
http://www.schistory.net/campwadsworth/

27th Division, World War One (New York State. Division of Military and
Naval Affairs. New York State Military Museum and Veterans' Research
Center)
http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/reghist/wwi/infantry/27thInfDiv/27thInfDivMain.htm