Virginia War History Commission, Norfolk, Virginia Records, 1919-1921 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

By Nichole Delasalas

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Collection Overview

Title: Virginia War History Commission, Norfolk, Virginia Records, 1919-1921

Predominant Dates:1919

ID: 001/01/MSS 0000-182

Primary Creator: Virginia War History Commission (1919-1928)

Extent: 19.0 Boxes

Arrangement: Arranged in original order. Questionnaires are divided by sex and race, and within these categories are arranged alphabetically by surname. Questionnaires from churches and schools are arranged within their respective categories in alphabetical order. Reports from various local organizations and other miscellaneous materials are arranged in original order.

Date Acquired: 01/00/1968

Subjects: Naval Station Norfolk (Va.), Norfolk (Va.), Norfolk (Va.)--Maps, Organizations, Schools, World War, 1914-1918

Forms of Material: Correspondence, Government records, Lists (document genres), Newsletters, Photographs, Postcards, Questionnaires, Reports

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Questionnaires completed by servicemembers and nurses who served during World War I from Norfolk, Virginia. Individual questionnaires ask for servicemembers' personal information, military service information, and thoughts and feelings about their service during the War. Questionnaires filled out by local churches and schools include statistical information and data on activities relating to financial contributions, general feelings, and patriotic activities implemented during the War. This collection also contains letters, reports, photographs, newsletters, and one 1919 map of the Naval Operating Base in Norfolk, Virginia.

Subject/Index Terms

Naval Station Norfolk (Va.)
Norfolk (Va.)
Norfolk (Va.)--Maps
Organizations
Schools
World War, 1914-1918

Administrative Information

Repository: Sargeant Memorial Collection

Access Restrictions: This collection is open to all researchers.

Use Restrictions: The status of copyright for these materials is governed by Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U. S. C.). Copyright restrictions may apply.

Acquisition Source: Mrs. S. H. Ferebee by donation

Related Materials: Virginia War History Commission Records, Library of Virginia. For more information please see http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi00958.xml.

Preferred Citation: Virginia War History Commission, Norfolk, Virginia Records, MSS 0000-182, Sargeant Memorial Collection, Norfolk Public Library, Norfolk, Virginia.

Box and Folder Listing

Box 9: Questionnaires, White: T - Whi

Folder 1: Tabb, Albert Lidney Johnson

Born: 1889 January 1.

Served in the National Guard, Company E, 4th Virginia Infantry, 29th Division.

Folder 2: Taliaferro, Claude Errol, 1919 November 23

Born: 1892 April 18.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force.

Folder 3: Taliaferro, Edward Ruggles, 1919 August 19

Born: 1894 November 21.

Served in the National Guard, Company A, 2nd U. S. Cavalry.

Folder 4: Taliaferro, John Catlett

Born: 1898 September 11.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force.

Folder 5: Taliaferro, Philip Boswell, 1919 August 27

Born: 1891 December 31.

Served in the National Guard.

Folder 6: Tarrant, Francis Beauregard

Born: 1895 August 5.

Served in the National Guard, Company G, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 7: Tatem, James F.

No questionnaire. Additional information included.

Folder 8: Taussig, Joseph K.

Served in the United States Navy. Additional information included.

Folder 9: Taylor, George Hope, 1919 September 2

Born: 1894 April 12.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force. Photograph included.

Folder 10: Taylor, George Thomas

Born: 1872 August 14.

Served in the National Guard, Company K, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 11: Taylor, John Hume, 1919 November 28

Born: 1899 December 29.

Served in the Army, Company A.

Folder 12: Taylor, Richard Baker, 1920 March 20

Born: 1874 January 20.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force. Two photographs included.

Folder 13: Taylor, Tazewell, Jr., 1919 August 19

Born: 1898 April 10.

Served in Company D, Student Army Training Corps.

Folder 14: Taylor, Washington, 1919 August 22

Born: 1880 August 25.

Folder 15: Tazewell, Edmund Bradford, 1919 September 22

Born: 1891 October 25.

Served in the Officers Reserve Corps.

Folder 16: Terrill, Miles Donald, 1919 August 19

Born: 1899 January 3.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 17: Thomas, Arthur James, 1919 August 24

Born: 1881 December 15.

Served in the National Guard, Headquarters Company, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 18: Thomas, Ralph Charles, 1919 October 9

Born: 1892 December 22.

Served in the Army, Headquarters Company, 20th Field Artillery, 5th Division.

Folder 19: Thompson, Edgar Leigh, 1919 August 31

Born: 1897 September 5.

Served in the Army, Company B.

Folder 20: Thompson, John V.

Served in the Army.

Folder 21: Thorp, Roland, 1919 November 11

Born: 1888 August 11.

Served in the National Guard, Company E, 111th Infantry, 29th Division.

Folder 22: Thrift, Powell Elliott

Born: 1895 December 8.

Folder 23: Thurman, William Mack

Born: 1890 June 20.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 24: Thurston, Louis Dunbar, 1919 August 19

Born: 1900 April 6.

Served in Company C.

Folder 25: Tilley, William Benjamin, 1919 September 28

Born: 1895 June 17.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 26: Tippett, Gurthie E., 1920 October 10

Born: 1893 September 23.

Served in the National Army, 19th Company.

Folder 27: Townsend, Charles Earle, 1919 September 10

Born: 1890 May 27.

Served in the Army, 3rd Company, 3rd Regiment.

Folder 28: Trower, Edward Neal, 1919 August 20

Born: 1898 August 2.

Served in the National Guard, Company B, 112th Machine Gun Battalion, 29th Division.

Folder 29: Truck, Lawrence Chiles, 1919 May 27

Born: 1899 May 1.

Served in the National Guard, Company K, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 30: Truitt, Edward Byrd, 1919 June 2

Born: 1895 November 7.

Served in the National Army, Machine Gun Company, 318th Regiment, 80th Division.

Folder 31: Trumbo, Grover C.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 32: Tucker, Augustine W., 1919 December 12

Born: 1883 June 19.

Served with the Red Cross.

Folder 33: Tucker, Ellis Nimmo

Born: 1892 July 23.

Served in the National Army, 17th Company 155th Depot Brigade.

Folder 34: Tucker, Francis Bland, 1919 December 15

Born: 1895 January 6.

Served in the National Army, Depot Brigade.

Folder 35: Tucker, Henry St. George

Born: 1874 July 16.

Served with the American Red Cross.

Folder 36: Tucker, Lawrence F., 1919 December 10

Born: 1889 October 2.

Served in the Reserve Army, 1st Infantry Company.

Folder 37: Tucker, Wesley Irvine, Jr., 1919 August 21

Born: 1896 May 8.

Served in the National Guard, Company A, 4th Regiment.

Folder 38: Tunstall, Cuthbert, 1920 January 19

Born: 1892 November 28.

Served in the National Army.

Folder 39: Tunstall, Richard

Born: 1888 May 7.

Served in the Reserve Corps.

Folder 40: Tunstall, Robert Baylor

Born: 1880 February 9.

Served in the National Army.

Folder 41: Tunstall, Whitmell Pugh, 1920 February 12

Born: 1880 November 10.

Served in the Reserve Army.

Additional information included.

Folder 42: Turner, Archie M., 1919 August 24

Born: 1893 March 12.

Served in the National Guard, Company A, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 43: Twiford, William Henry, 1919 May 25

Born: 1894 January 28.

Served in the National Guard, Company G, 4th Regiment.

Folder 44: Twine, Charles Edward, 1919 May 27

Born: 1897 February 11.

Served in the National Guard, Company H, 116th Regiment, 29th Division.

Folder 45: Tyler, Stephen Bancroft, 1919 August 19

Born: 1887 April 19.

Served in the National Guard.

Folder 46: Tynan, William Vincent

Born: 1886 May 31.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 47: Upshur, Jack Andrews

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 48: Vanderberry, Irving Randolph, 1920 July 30

Born: 1894 March 24.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force.

Folder 49: Vanderberry, Rolfe Dupuy, 1919 August 20

Born: 1888 April 29.

Served in the Army, Company A.

Folder 50: Vandevenier, Braden, 1919 August 20

Born: 1878 May 5.

Served in the National Army.

Folder 51: Vaughan, Harry B.

No questionnaire. Additional information included.

Folder 52: Vaughn, John Thaddeus, 1919 August 19

Born: 1885 May 29.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 53: Vaughan, Victor Lomax, 1919 September 22

Born: 1892 April 28.

Served in the National Army.

Folder 54: Veazey, Logan Drowne, 1919 November 4

Born: 1894 May 30.

Served in the National Guard, Company G, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 55: Vicar, Willis Wilson, Jr., 1919 October 30

Born: 1898 June 21.

Served in the National Army, Company Q, 2nd Regiment.

Folder 56: Voight, Albert Sylvester, 1920 August 31

Born: 1897 July 9.

Served in National Guard and Army. Photograph included.

Folder 57: Wadsworth, Robert Allen, 1919 October 18

Born: 1891 May 27.

Served in the National Guard, Company A, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 58: Wainwright, Harry Roe

Born: 1897 January 6.

Served in the Naval Reserve.

Additional information included.

Folder 59: Wainwright, John Freeman

Born: 1900 January 7.

Served in the United States Navy. Photograph included.

Folder 60: Wales, Lawrence Butler, 1919 December 13

Born: 1893 October 3.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force.

Folder 61: Walker, Richard Sampson, 1919 September 15

Born: 1888 July 3.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force. Photograph included.

Folder 62: Waller, Littleton Tazewell Waller, Jr., 1920 January 27

Born: 1886 September 18.

Served in the National Guard. Photograph and additional information included.

Folder 63: Waller, Matthew Page, 1919 December 10

Born: 1895 July 31.

Served in the Naval Reserve.

Additional information included.

Folder 64: Ward, Arthur Littleton, 1919 May 26

Born: 1894 November 2.

Served in the National Guard, Machine Gun Company, 116th Infantry.

Folder 65: Ware, James Vernon, 1920 July 18

Born: 1891 September 7.

Served in the Army, 22nd Infantry.

Additional information included.

Folder 66: Washam, Victor Vincent, 1919 August 22

Born: 1893 September 8.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 67: Waters, John Edward, 1919 August 20

Born: 1893 June 5.

Served in the United States Navy. Photograph included.

Folder 68: Watson, Charles Campbell, 1919 November 7

Born: 1900 July 3.

Served in the Army, Company G.

Folder 69: Watson, Lawrence Edward, 1920 August 7

Born: 1892 September 28.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 70: Weaver, Rixey Lee, 1920 July 26

Born: 1890 May 17.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 71: Welker, Don Murray, 1920 July 24

Born: 1892 March 6.

Served in the Army, Company G, 5th Regiment. Two photographs included.

Folder 72: Wells, William Washington, 1919 May 27

Born: 1878 December 10.

Served in the National Guard, Company A, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 73: Wergley, John Albert Herman, 1919 August 24

Born: 1878 October 18.

Served in the National Guard, Company E, 4th Virginia Infantry.

Folder 74: Werner, Richard, 1920 July 26

Born: 1876 December 20.

Served in the United States Navy.

Additional information included.

Folder 75: West, John Thomas, 1919 August 20

Born: 1894 November 12.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 76: West, John Thomas

Born: 1852 November 6.

Folder 77: Whalen, John Joseph, 1919 August 22

Born: 1887 August 4.

Served in the National Army.

Folder 78: Whaley, Edward Alston, 1919 December 15

Born: 1892 November 27.

Served in Naval Reserve.

Folder 79: White, Edgar Lee, Jr., 1919 August 28

Born: 1898 August 16.

Served in the United States Navy.

Folder 80: White, Fairmount Richmond, 1919 August 20

Born: 1899 December 4.

Served in the National Guard.

Folder 81: White, Herbert Nash, 1919 October 21

Born: 1885 August 11.

Served in the United States Naval Reserve Force. Photograph included.

Folder 82: White, Herbert Ransone, 1919 August 22

Born: 1892 June 12.

Served in the National Guard, 12th Company.

Folder 83: White, Joshua Warren, 1920 January 6

Born: 1876 June 22.

Served in the Army.

Folder 84: White, Luther Wesley, Jr., 1919 November 13

Born: 1886 November 23.

Served in the Naval Reserve.

Folder 85: White, Matthew James Walter, Jr., 1919 August 21

Born: 1899 August 29.

Served in the United States Navy. Photograph included.

Folder 86: White, Nelson Maurice, 1919 October 6

Born: 1899 February 12.

Served in the Army, Company A, 20th Regiment.

Folder 87: White, William Joseph

Folder 88: Whitehorn, Robert Daniel, 1919 September 1

Born: 1898 December 23.

Served in the National Guard, Company B, 112th Machine Gun Battalion, 29th Division.

Folder 89: Whitehurst, Edward Harvey, 1919 August 22

Born: 1891 February 18.

Served in the Naval Reserve. Two photographs included.

Folder 90: Whitehurst, Franklyn Peayce, 1919 August 27

Born: 1890 April 22.

Served in the Army.