Guest Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Here is a photo of my Grandfather taken at Camp Cody in Deming, New Mexico 1918. He was a member of the 62 Fld Arty, 97 Division, never made it overseas but thought you guys might like to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steviebullsatatter Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Its lovely to have photos of our relatives from the great war. All ours got thrown away unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Welcome to the forum Sapper44 and thank you for sharing an interesting photograph. I'm not well up on US Uniforms, is that a typical US Field Artillery uniform? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragoon Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Welcome to the forum, And thank you for sharing your photograph. When did he leave the Army, do you have his records? I don't know a lot about the US side of things, but I do find it most interesting. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRC Posted 10 July , 2019 Share Posted 10 July , 2019 Welcome to the forum. I believe the attached is his WW1 draft card. It comes from the familysearch website which also has a WW2 draft card for him as well. The next image in the WW1 series is a 28 year old Joseph Schatz of the same address. Cheers, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted 13 July , 2019 Share Posted 13 July , 2019 Yep that is him. From what I understand is that he was released from service soon after the war ended, and went back to work at the Rock Island Arsenal. He had 2 sons, My grandfather and his brother, both went into the service in WWII and my grandfather who went into the USMC had one son (my father) who also went into the service and retired from the Army as a Lt.Col. My grandfather had an interesting time in the service he started out in the USMC and left in 1948 as a staff sergeant, joined the US Army after they offered him a commission and retired in 1968 as a Major. As far as I know that is just his everyday uniform in WW1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aengland Posted 14 July , 2019 Share Posted 14 July , 2019 Thank you for sharing this with the Forum... good to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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