Guy Alexander Dirom Papers
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- Identifier
- JML.MS1534
- Source Identifier
- 566
- Title
- Guy Alexander Dirom Papers
- Description
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Guy Alexander Dirom Papers Held At Jones Memorial Library In Lynchburg, Virginia.
All materials in this collection has been digitized: Box 1 (entire), Box 2 (entire), Box 3 (partial, file 3 "Anecdotes, Fun and Jokes by the A.E.F. in France").
The collection consists of vouchers (1917-1919) paid by Lt. Guy Alexander DIROM, of Lynchburg, Virginia, a member of Company A, 318th Infantry, during training at Camp Lee, Virginia, and on active duty in France during World War I. Also included are a collection of correspondence, written mainly to his mother, Mrs. Robert A. Dirom of Lynchburg, during his tour of duty in France (1916–1918), a collection of souvenir postcards and photographs, and military manuals.
BOX 1
1-1 Vouchers 1-28, Sep-Oct 1917
1-2 Vouchers 1-30, Nov 1917
1-3 Vouchers 1-24, Dec 1917
1-4 Vouchers 1-25, Jan 1918
1-5 Vouchers 1-30, Feb 1918
1-6 Vouchers 1-21, Mar 1918
1-7 Vouchers 1-50, Apr 1918
1-8 Vouchers 1-99, May 1918
1-9 Vouchers Jun-Dec 1918
1–10 Vouchers Jan-Jun 1919
1–11 Miscellaneous Receipt Vouchers (Calais, France)
1-12 Miscellaneous Receipt Books, Bank Books, Notes
BOX 2
2–1 Diary, 1918
2–2 Correspondence (Sep 1916, Jan–Mar 1919)
2–3 Correspondence (May–Jun 1918)
2–4 Correspondence (Jul 1918)
2–5 Correspondence (Aug–Sep 1918)
2–6 Correspondence (Oct–Nov 1918)
2–7 Correspondence (Dec 1918–Jan 1919)
2–8 Correspondence (Feb–May 1919, Dec 1920)
2–9 Miscellaneous notes
2–10 Passenger list (May 1919)
2–11 Service record and photograph (officers at camp)
2–12 Souvenir postcards and photographs
BOX 3
3–1 Regulations of the Army of the United States, 1913
(Corrected to April 15, 1917)
3–2 A Manual for Courts–Martial (1917)
3–3 Anecdotes, Fun and Jokes by the A.E.F. in France (1920); Army, Navy, Marine Corps Insignia (1943); Visual Signaling (1916); Method of Instructing Skirmishers and Small Groups of Skirmisher (1917)
3–4 Field Entrenchments (1917); Field Service Pocket Book (1917); Field Service Regulations (1914, corrected to 1916)
3–5 Edley Craighill, History of the 317th Infantry
3–6 Manual of the Chief of Platoon of Infantry (1918)
3–7 Night Movements (1914)
3–8 Notes on the Construction and Equipment of Trenches (1917) - Date Range
- 1913 – 1920
- Subject
- Dirom, Guy Alexander, 1896-1985
- topic
- war correspondence
- Guy Alexander Dirom
- Letters
- military manuals
- military service
- MS 1534
- MS1534
- photographs
- World War 1 -- receipts
- World War 1 -- vouchers
- World War 1 -- correspondence
- World War 1 -- records
- Location
- Lynchburg, Virginia
- France
- United States of America
- Virginia
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- George M. Jones Library Association
Part of Guy Alexander Dirom Papers