World War I Chronicles, men, soldiers, camps, trenches, relics and monuments. (original) (raw)
Here are the stories and photos of Texans or Americans who trained in Texas and their involvement in The Great War as it was called. It has become one of the United States neglected wars, even though the casualties exceeded 80,000 killed.
There is hardly a Texas Cemetery without the graves of several Doughboys. The monuments to them are all but invisible. The stance of their statues is more belligerent and active than those erected to the dead of other wars. It's ironic considering the time they spent immobile and dying from disease.
They brought back war trophies from "The War to End All Wars" only to have had them melted down in scrap drives to fuel another World War. In many cases - especially in Texas - there were men fighting their cousins. German immigrants had barely gotten settled here when they were sent to fight their uncle's sons.
WWI - The Men
- Daniel Edwards: Hero or Hoax by Clay Coppedge 6-13-19
Alvin C. York had nothing on Daniel Edwards, other than, perhaps, an abiding sense of honesty. Both men were awarded the Medal of Honor to recognize their gallant actions in World War I, but York's legacy has endured longer and stronger, partly due to the popularity of the 1941 Gary Cooper movie, Sergeant York.
But Edwards' stories are the more incredible, even the ones he didn't make up.
 |
A War Hero Comes Home by Michael Barr 5-29-18 Pvt. Francisco Lemos was finally laid to rest in Mountain View Cemetery. He was the first Kerr County soldier to die in World War I, and the last American soldier killed in Europe to be brought home. |
|---|
WWI - The Camps and Trenches
Practicing Trench Fighting in Texas
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
WWI - Home Front
- Standardized wheel widths kept you in a rut by Delbert Trew
An article published in the October 2005 Farm Collector Magazine... tells of an early U.S. government directive to all wagon manufacturers. Dated Jan. 1, 1919, the directive stated that, "all wagons must be made to conform to the auto track wheel width of 56 inches.".. - The War Protest by Bob Bowman
At the peak of another war ninety years ago, a small East Texas sawmill town made a statement about American soldiers being killed in a distant land.
WWI Monuments and Relics
 |
Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery by John Troesser WWI Veterans Black church and cemetery For a tiny cemetery - a disporportionate number of veterans graves. |
|---|
- Battleship Texas by Archie P. McDonald (From "All Things Historical")
- Temple to the Brave, c.1932, Beaumont, Texas by John Troesser
- Cooke County Courthouse Clock
Images: - Brownsville, Texas WWI Troops Parade
- Canyon, Texas WWI Monument
- Celina, Texas War Memorial
- Fort Bliss 1908
- Jacksonville, Texas WWI monument
- Lufkin, Texas Doughboy Statue
- Mixon Cemetery
- Paris, Texas WWI Memorial
- Sinton, Texas Doughboy Statue
Tombstones: - Roger's Cemetery, Austin
- Ledbetter Cemetery, Fayette County
General: - Memorial Day by Archie P. McDonald
When Americans pause at the ceremonial beginning of summer to honor those who gave their lives in military service they are participating in our national version of ancient rites... - Hamilton celebrates Armistice Day Cartoon by Roger T. Moore
- In Graves They Lay by D. Knape
WWI Troops Parade in Brownsville
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
Fort Bliss 1918
Postcard courtesy www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/
Texas Escapes, in its purpose to preserve historic, endangered and vanishing Texas, asks that anyone wishing to share history, stories, and vintage/historic photos, please contact us.