APRIL 6 TH, 1917: THE UNITED STATES & YOLO COUNTY ENTERED WORLD WAR 1
THE THE GREA GREAT T WA WAR “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS” NARA IMAGES
ON APRIL 6 TH , 1918 THE COUNTY HELD A MASSIVE PATRIOTIC PARADE IN WOODLAND YOLO COUNTY’S SERVICE FLAG HAD ALMOST 600 BLUE STARS OF WHICH FOUR WERE GOLD YCA C7 ‐ 6 APRIL 6 TH 1918, PARADE WOODLAND YCA C7 ‐ 4 APRIL 6 TH 1918, PARADE WOODLAND ‐ HIGH SCHOOL RED CROSS FLAG
THEY CAME TO HONOR YCA AG EX SCRAP BOOK G.H.HECKE ‐ HORTICULTRAL COMMISSIONER ALL THOSE THAT SERVED: ON THE HOME FRONT CSL COUNTY LIBRARIAN ELEANOR HITT YCA B9 ‐ 45 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR’S 1920’s
AND ON THE MILITARY FRONT http://usmclife.com/wp ‐ content/uploads/2017/07/ World ‐ War ‐ I ‐ Marines.jpg IMAGE COURTESY:AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
LED BY THE YOLO COUNTY COUNCIL FOR DEFENSE Judge W. A. Anderson County Sheriff J. W. Monroe County Supervisor J. S. Scott County Clerk H. S. Saunders THE COUNTY HAD “GONE OVER THE TOP” IN ALL IT’S WAR EFFORTS YCA F15 ‐ 17 SHERIFF MONROE YCA WW1 ALBUM MAY 13, 1918 JUDGE W. A. ANDERSON
THE COUNTY RAISED $1,5740.00 DURING TWO LIBERTY BOND CAMPAIGNS THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS BOUGHT $130,000. THE JOHN WOHLFROM ESTATE $50,000 WORTH OF BONDS POSTERS, MOVIES, NEWSPAPER ADS AND OTHER PROPAGANDA METHODS USED BY THE CPI LC POSTER LIBERTY BONDS LC POSTER LIBERTY BONDS
HAD THE LARGEST HARVEST IN ITS HISTORY HELPING FEED THE STARVING OF EUROPE HERBERT HOOVER HELD UP YOLO COUNTY TO THE COUNTRY AS A COUNTY TO EMULATE LC POSTER:.pnp/ppmsca.50987 “VICTORY CONGRESS PASSES DAYLIGHT SAVINGS BILL” YCA #A1 ‐ 173 HARVESTING ON THE HARLAN RANCH
EVERYONE WAS EXPECTED TO “DO THEIR BIT” FOR THE WAR OVER 600 YOLO WOMEN WORKED FOR THE RED CROSS LC POSTER ‐ USZC4 ‐ 7756 “OUR BOYS NEED SOX” LC POSTER ‐ USZC4 ‐ 960 W. WILSON LIBRARY IMAGE AMERICAN RED CROSS SURGICAL WORKS “BUY WAR SAVINGS BONDS”
ALL THE MEN AGED BETWEEN 21 AND 30 WERE REGISTERED FOR THE DRAFT BY THE COUNTY FAILURE TO REGISTER LED TO ONE YEAR IN JAIL AND THEN ENFORCED REGISTRATION sos.oregon.gov WEBSITE IMAGE: YCA C9 ‐ 19 H.R. SAUNDERS COUNTY CLERK
THE COUNTY DRAFT EXEMPTION BOARD EXAMINED, SELECTED AND INDUCTED OVER 10O DRAFTEES INTO THE NATIONAL ARMY YCA FIRST WORLD WAR ALBUM VOL 1 WDD 10/7/1917
THE DRAFT BOARD HANDLED THE DRAFTING OF AFRICAN AMERICANS SEPERATELY IN OCTOBER OF 1917, THE FIRST TWO AFRICAN AMERICANS WERE SELECTED BY THE BOARD TO REPRESENT YOLO COUNTY. DIGGS WAS A BOXER FROM WOODLAND AND WAS VERY WELL KNOWN IN THE COUNTY. JOE DICK CLARK WAS A TRACTOR ENGINEER FROM MADISON. JOE DICK CLARK JACK PORTER DIGGS YCA WW1 ALBUM WDD 10/29/1917
ALL THE DRAFTEES WERE SENT TO CAMP LEWIS
ALMOST 500 YOLO COUNTY “BOY’S” HAD VOLUNTEERED: LC ‐ DIG ‐ ds ‐ 03216 LC DIG ‐ ppmsc ‐ 03521 “DESTROY THIS MAD BRUTE” CSL STANLEY HALSTEAD DONOVAN “I WANT YOU FOR THE US ARMY” REGULAR ARMY ‐ RIVERBANK
QUATERMASTER CORPS FRANK HOLLINGSWORTH AND 11 OTHER MEN FROM YOLO JOINED THE QMC The Liberty Truck-New Standard Issue The US Mule-Standard Issue
RUSSELL JAMES LOWE, ALONG WITH 5 AMBULANCE CORPS OTHER BOYS JOINED THE AMBULANCE CORPS. FELLOW 1907 WHS GRADUATE, FRED FAIRCHILD BECAME A SURGEON AT LETTERMAN HOSPITAL IN S.F. IMAGE COURTESEY US ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OFFICE OF MEDICAL HISTORY YCA ILEX COLLECTION 1918
ARTILLERY CORPS TANK CORPS OTTO FISHER AND SCHURLEY EMIL SCHLUER DR. BOB DONATION BOTH JOINED THE TANK CORPS EVEN EARL MURRAY, AMONG OTHERS, THOUGH AMERICA HAD NO TANKS OF THEIR JOINED THE ARTILLERY CORPS OWN
THE ARMY SIGNAL CORPS • MOST WHO JOINED WERE NOT PILOTS BUT SUPPORT TROOPS • MOST NEVER SAW THE FRONT Frank Stephens, James Dickason, Fred Moedinger, Russell Robinson, Jack McDonald, Thomas Simpson, Adalbert Hoover all joined the Signal Corps LC POSTER ‐ USZC4 ‐ 7558 “OVER THERE…AIR SERVICE”
AVIATION: THE NEW FRONTIER SOME OF THE BOYS WHO JOINED THE SIGNAL CORPS-AVIATION BRANCH AS PILOTS • CHARLES E CAROLES • JOSEPH CAROLES • WILLIAM HAROLD CURSON • OTTO DANDER • MANDERSON EVANS • WILLIAM SANBORN • PHIL SMITH • HOME WYATT LC ‐ USZC4 ‐ 3301 “BE AN AMERICAN EAGLE”
CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD THE 40 TH DIVISION“SUNSHINE DIVISION” YCA SPECIAL COLLECTION ALVIN JENKS NATIONAL GUARD CO F 71 BOYS IN CO F, NATIONAL GUARD WOODLAND WENT TO TRAIN AT CAMP KEARNY NATIONAL ARCHIVES IMAGE 26434001 LI 165 ‐ WW ‐ 140F ‐ 14 CAMP KEARNY
THE NAVY recruited heavily in Yolo County. YCA WW1 ALBUM OTIS MANSFIELD 80 BOYS JOINED UP in first JAMES L GLENN OF BRYTE months! CALIFORNIA LIBRARY IMAGE LC POSTER-DIG-ppmsca-40824 YCA WW1 ALBUM “GEE I WISH” CHARLES MANSFIELD
THE MARINES WILLIE CHAPMAN WOODLAND DEMOCRAT REPORTER JOINED THE MARINES AND BECAME A REPORTER FOR THE QUANTICO NEWSPAPER CSL IMAGE: CHAPMAN, WILLIE LC POSTER: USZC4 ‐ 7703 “IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT”
CLARKSBURG FCL #1096 BAYLING HAY ON THE KRULL RANCH YCA D11 ‐ 9 CLARKSBURG WHARF SHOWING CHINESE CAMP
DAVIS YCA #B13 ‐ 3 UNIVERSITY FARM IMAGE COURTESY OF UCD SPECIAL COLLECTIONS d ‐ 394 2:63 YCA #B11 ‐ 29 MAIN STREET1922 COLBY SLATER
DUNNIGAN, ZAMORA AND YOLO AREA YCA #H11 ‐ 9 MAIN STREET IN SNOW YCA # HERMLE 1 ‐ 17 YCA #G18 ‐ 3 HARVESTING IN THE ZAMORA HILLS 1915 THE PRISCILLA CLUB
ESPARTO TO RUMSEY YCA A1 ‐ 8 BEST TRACTOR YCA TADLOCK COLLECTION
WEST SACRAMENTO YCA #A1 ‐ 160 HOPS ON MERKLEY RANCH CAL STATE LIBRARY RAY HARLOW ‐ BRODERICK CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY ELLIS J. HARLOW ‐ BRODERICK YCA #O5 ‐ 14 THE VALLETA BRINGING CROPS TO S.F.
KNIGHTS LANDING YCA E11 ‐ 10 KNIGHTS LANDING FRONT STREET YCA G13 ‐ 16 SCHOOL TEACHER AND BASEBALL TEAM YCA A1 ‐ 15 RIVER GARDEN FARMS WAREHOUSE
WOODLAND YCA E9 ‐ 29 LESTER JOHNSTON YCA B11 ‐ 2 MAIN STREET WOODLAND CROIX DE GUERRE AWARDED TO HERBERT HOPE YCA #B15 ‐ 2 YOLANDA RANCH
WINTERS YCA 1911 “THE POPPY” WINTERS BOY BASKETBALL TEAM YCA ‐ BETTY COMAN #92 WINTERS SOLDIER YCA ‐ BETTY COMAN #6 DRYING APRICOTS
EACH COMMUNITY IN THE COUNTY SHARED IN THE NATIONAL EXPERIENCE OF BEING AT WAR
VOLUNTEERS BEFORE USA IN WAR AMADEO CARMASSI WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO DIE FROM YOLO COUNTY. AMADEO HAD SIGNED HIS DECLARATION OF INTENT TO BECOME A CITIZEN BUT RETURNED TO ITALY IN 1916 TO JOIN THE ITALIAN ARMY. CARMASSI DIED AT THE BATTLE OF TRIESTE IN 1917 IWM IMAGE #Q114388 ITALIANS WAITING TO GO OVER THE TOP MAY 1917
th [?]19 BASIL WILLIAMS-OCT BASIL WILLIAMS-OCTOBER, 8 OBER, 8 th [?]1917 BASIL C. WILLIAMS FROM THE DUNNIGAN AREA WAS ALREADY IN THE ARMY MEDICAL SERVICE WHEN WAR BROKE OUT. HE WAS STATIONED IN HONOLULU WHEN HE DIED BY “HIS OWN HAND”. YCA E24 ‐ 5 BASIL CAMPBELL
VERNON MAXWELL DIED ON DECEMBER 25 TH, 1917 OF PNEUMONIA YCA BETTY CONMAN COLLECTION NARA IMAGE ‐ CPI COLLECTION ‐ CAMP KEARNY BASE HOSPITAL
CHARLES D CHARLES DAVID HUNT ALSO DIED VID HUNT ALSO DIED FROM PNEUMONIA-JANUARY 29 TH , 1918 “…the doors swang wide open for his admission to the mansion with the pearly gates.” HIS WOODLAND SCHOOL FRIENDS ACTED AS PALL BEARERS: • MYRON EVANS • MONROE MCGREW • LEO LAWSON • RAYMOND VACA NATIONAL ARCHIVES IMAGE:165 ‐ WW ‐ 323 ‐ 41 ‐ ”SAILOR’S KNOT”
BY DECEMBER, 1917 THERE WERE ONLY 64,000 MEN “OVER THERE” FIRST SHELL FIRED BY THE 42 ND DIVISION NARA IMAGE: 111 ‐ SC ‐ 94980
FIRST YOLO SOLDIER TO DIE IN FRANCE OT OTTO TO S SCHOENEMANN IMAGE WWW.WORLDWAR1.COM OTTO DIED OF PNEUMONIA TROOP TRANSPORTATION JANUARY OF 1918 NARA DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD ‐ ANCHESTRY.COM RECORD ANCESTRY.COM
YOLO COUNTY NURSES NEEDED BOTH AT HOME AND OVERSEAS YOLO COUNTY SAW ABOUT 18 NURSES ENLIST IN SERVICE. LWF ‐ D16 ‐ P1 ELLA CHILDERS MANY OF THE NURSES WHO ENLISTED TRAINED BY THE WOODLAND YCA O9 ‐ 49 DOROTHY NORTH SANITARIUM YCA OVD ‐ 4 WOODLAND SANITARIUM NURSE
CAMP FUNSTON-INFLUENZA OUTBREAK ON MARCH 8 TH , 1918 AN OUTBREAK OF INFLUENZA STARTED AT CAMP FUNSTON. CARRIED TO EUROPE BY SOLDIERS GOING TO WAR..IT WAS EVENTUALLY TO GO AROUND THE WORLD. COURTESY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMG.KANSASMEMORY.ORG/00053269.JPG
“LEST WE FORGET” LET US TAKE A MOMENT TO REMEMBER THE SACRIFICE OF THOSE THAT DIED IN THE GREAT WAR “THE WAR TO END ALL WARS” IMAGES FROM “THE HISTORY OF TRANSPORTATION” 1919
AMERICAN LEGION POST 77 COMMEMORATE THE 10 100 TH TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF W END OF WORLD W RLD WAR 1 R 1 HONOR ALL THOSE WHO MADE THE ULTIMA THE UL TIMATE S TE SACRIFICE CRIFICE YOLO COUNTY COURT HOUSE NO NOVEMBER 11 VEMBER 11 TH TH , 20 , 2018 A AT 11 11. A . A.M. M. IMAGE COURTESY MEL RUSSELL VETERAN’S DAY WOODLAND CA. 2017 IMAGE COURTESY STEVE BONNEL
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