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Photograph article dated August 22, 1962 partially reads, "The letter is dated May 6, 1919 and postmarked from an Army hospital in Bordeaux, southern France, where Sgt. Homer E. Campbell, of the American Expeditionary Forces, medical division, was stationed during World War I. The war ended in November, 1918. The combat troops were shipped home first, then the clean-up men, then the wounded, and finally the medical divisions. Seven months later, in July, 1919, Sgt. Campbell was still in France. The former soldier explains what happened then: 'Medical sergeants related duties and it fell my lot to become the sergeant-of-the-guard while the United States was in the process of turning the hospital over to French military. Everyone had left. The guard had been the last unit out. And the sergeant-of-the-guard - me - was the last one to go.'" Homer Campbell of Van Nuys remembers World War I guard duty.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Police, Private--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Uniforms--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--Security measures Hospitals--California--Panorama City (Los Angeles) Interiors--California--Panorama City (Los Angeles) Veterans--United States Panorama City (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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