World War I soldiers at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station
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Name/Title
Soldiers at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station
Entry/Object ID
2019.16.1
Description
Panorama photograph believed to be of Company K, 10th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry soldiers (later 110th Infantry, 28th Division) as they headed to a training in the era just before or during the Mexican Border War (1916) or World War I (1917-1918). The soldiers are standing at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station in Waynesburg, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Members of the local Company K have been identified in this group, but only 67 soldiers are pictured, which may indicate peace-time enlistment levels. At the time the Company left for WWI on 7 September 1917, we know that approximately 150 men were in the group that boarded the W & W to go to training at Camp Hancock, Georgia.
It also may be possible that some of the soldiers photographed were not members of Company K at all, but trained with them before receiving their own orders.
Identified:
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5) Believed to be John Milton Paden
(6) Believed to be Ralford Baily Purman
(7)
(8) Believed to be Floyd Spragg Strosnider
(9)
(10) Believed to be Russell Kenneth Yoders
(11) Believed to be Harry Dunn
(12)
(13) Believed to be Albert "Bert" Buchanan
(14)
(15) Believed to be Walter C. Montgomery
(16)
(17)
(18)
(19) Believed to be Charles Austin Dille
(20) Believed to be Ernest Clayton
(21)
(22)
(23) Believed to be Silva E. Hartley
(24) Believed to be Fred Roland Cleavenger
(25)
(26)
(27) Believed to be Charles Leroy Bosworth
(28) Believed to be William Walter McVay
(29) Believed to be Lawrence Leslie Staggers
(30)
(31) Believed to be Edward Jay Hatfield
(32)
(33) Believed to be Charles Edward Hewitt
(34)
(35)
(36) Believed to be Joseph Bryan Varner
(37) Believed to be Edward McNicholas
(38) Believed to be Dors W. Patterson
(39)
(40) Believed to be Howard Louis Leckey Sr.
(41) Believed to be Clarence Earnest
(42)
(43)
(44) Believed to be Allen T. Hill
(45) Believed to be Floyd Whitlatch Patterson
(46)
(47)
(48) Believed to Samuel Morris Thompson
(49)
(50)
(51)
(52)
(53)
(54)
(55) Believed to be Frederick W. Marshall
(56)
(57)
(58)
(59)
(60)
(61)
(62)
(63) Believed to be Ralph Dudley Durbin
(64) Believed to be Charles Edward Murphy
(65)
(66)
(67) *Glenn Alonzo Ross.
*Identified by his granddaughter Susan Goerss Brown, 2019.
Original, professional photograph by Babbitt-Ely, Waynesburg, Pa.
Bosworth family, Buchanan family, Military, Rain Day Boys, Ross family, Trains, United States. Army. Infantry Division, 28th. Regiment, 110th. Company K., Veterans--Mexican Border War, 1916, Veterans--World War I, Waynesburg & Washington Railroad
The Roy Huffman Collection was assembled by Roy and his mother Audrey (Benjeski) Huffman from photographs shared by relatives. Roy shared the collection with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Archives Project in 2019.
Source Citation: Soldiers at the Waynesburg & Washington Railroad Station; item no. HUFR-AN001-0001, Roy Huffman Collection; Greene Connections Archives Project (GreeneConnections.com).
