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World War I Memorabilia, 1917-1919, Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection Accession 10875-m, 10875-n, 10875-o, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
These items were given to the Library by Matthew Bruccoli, Columbia, South Carolina, on June 24, 1992.
This collection consists of two items, 1918 and n.d., pertaining to the Great War era. The postcard featuring a picture of a World War I soldier and his girlfriend was sent by James E. Hyland, a member of Battalion C, 27th Regiment, 9th Brigade, from Camp McClellan, Alabama, August 17, 1918, to Miss Mabel Roberts, Gaylordsville, Connecticut. Hyland states, "I did not expect two weeks ago I would be a way down here. Just got back from a ten mile hike 114 in the shade today."
Also present is an undated engraved compliments card from Charles G. Dawes (1865-1961), the U. S. Vice President, 1925-1929. He served as a brigadier general in the American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917-1919, and was president of a commission to investigate the German budget and payments of war reparations (1923), which evolved into the Dawes plan of loan reorganization.