Roster naming many local area men that were in Company K, 161st Infantry, Army Expeditionary Forces, in France during World War I.

 

World War I veterans and local members of the Forty + Eight, an honor society of the American Legion. Photos by Bill Lilley. (See Wikipedia for a brief description of the 40 + 8)

Arthur "Jack" Barre, local leader, the Chef de Gare.

Initiation ceremony, 1950

Initiation ceremony

Projector donated to Seguin School

 

War Memorial (WWI) building constructed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) for the American Legion.

Little Theatre bought the building in 1948 and the Legion moved downtown.

 

Jasper Reynolds and the World War I soldiers of this area return home in 1918. Copies from negatives courtesy of Stuart and Shirley Reynolds.

 

Jasper Reynolds

Photo album of Deane (or Dean) Beauchamp (1898-1990), 3rd generation farmer near Umapine, graduate of Vincent High School, and a World War I veteran. Courtesy of the estate of his son, Grant Beauchamp (1945- Feb 2020), and grand-daughters Amanda and Lori.