71st Engineers correspondence and photograph album, 1914-1938

Summary

Creator:

Hargrett Library

Date:

1914-1938

Extent:

1 Linear Feet

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

[Item, box, folder], 71st Engineers correspondence and photograph album, ms4453, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains correspondence, ephemera, and a photograph album regarding the time that Floyd Flansburg spent in the U.S. Army, 71st Engineers. Also included are letters from 1938 while he was in a VA Hospital in Bath, New York. The collection contains several references to the flu outbreak of 1918, and the some typed rosters of the 214th and 71st Engineers.

Biographical / historical:

Floyd Flansburg (1896-1972), of Watertown, New York, served in the 71st Engineers, U.S. Army during World War I. He began his duty in the 214th Engineers, trained in antiaircraft searchlight operations at Camp Forrest in Georgia. Mr. Flansburg was then deployed in defense of Washington, DC with the 71st Engineers. After the war he was employed as a plumber.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

World War, 1914-1918 -- Georgia.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Photographs.
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives.
Soldiers -- Correspondence.

Names:

Flansburg, Floyd R.

Preferred citation:

[Item, box, folder], 71st Engineers correspondence and photograph album, ms4453, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.