Comments on: Guest Post: Foreshadowing in France

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:29:47 +0000

jean, I’ll answer for Joseph so I can say some things he will be too modest to say.

No, Hulme is no relation to Joe. But a while back Joe came up with a fascinating, previously unstudied historical question that is going to make for some fascinating reading when he publishes it. Since then, he has been methodically and tenaciously working through every record he can locate for every person he can identify who was in the right time and place to have played a role in his topic. While doing that, he read Hulme’s diary and recognized the kind of brief story that makes for a great blog post, and he offered it to Keepa.

By: jean

jean — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:04:33 +0000

I thought this article on France was interesting. Is he one of your relatives?

By: Tod Robbins

Tod Robbins — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:42:33 +0000

PS: Joseph we can continue our correspondence over email so as not to bore everyone else: todd . d . robbins at gmail

Cheers.

By: Tod Robbins

Tod Robbins — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 20:41:46 +0000

I don’t know those details. Do the National Archives (USA) have digitized WWI records yet?

By: J. Soderborg

J. Soderborg — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:02:54 +0000

Tod, T. C. is probably tank commander. Was W. J. Nelson in the tank corps?

By: Tod Robbins

Tod Robbins — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 06:01:22 +0000

@Joseph

I’m actually having a really rough time finding any sources through my searches (I don’t have full access to Ancestry at home anyhow). And about William Jennings Bryan, It’d never crossed my mind before. Interesting…

Any ideas on finding documents?

PS: On the back of one of those postcards is the stamped name:

S. T. Coombs
2nd Lieut. T. C. USA.

Any idea how to track down info on this officer?

By: J soderborg

J soderborg — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:46:59 +0000

Tod,
Thanks for the links. Have been able to get any army records relating to his service in WWI?
My Grandfather’s service of about a week in the Canadian Army (see no. 10 above) generated more than ten pages of reports, forms, etc.

Also, Is there any chance William Jennings Nelson was named after William Jennings Bryan, the three time presidential candidate and Wilson’s Sec. of state when the war began?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 01:16:41 +0000

Tod, LDS soldiers in World War I is a topic we keep going back to around here — several posts about B.H. Roberts as a chaplain, and a sketch of Jens Leslie Stevenson, and this post, for instance. No need to bow — a lot of us, including me, are very interested. Those are a couple of great looking photos. Thanks.

By: Tod Robbins

Tod Robbins — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:30:25 +0000

Apparently my links are broken. Try this one, if you're interested: William Jennings Nelson (1897-1958)

By: Tod Robbins

Tod Robbins — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:21:18 +0000

Ok, Joseph, I jumped the gun major-like on this one. Nelson wasn’t there the same time, and he was in Oullins & Lyon. Enjoy the photos nonetheless! /bows head in shame/