John Hardesty Photograph - 1919
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Description
John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as a surgeon with the British Army during WWI. In March of 1918, he was captured by Germans in Amiens, France. Hardesty was imprisoned at Ratstatt and Villingen Prisoner of War Camps for eight months. This was a photograph of Hardesty with his nieces, Mary Lee Wilson and Frances Hardesty.
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Summer of 1919 Capt. John F. Hardesty, M.D. Mary Lee Wilson Frances Hardest
Description
John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as a surgeon with the British Army during WWI. In March of 1918, he was captured by Germans in Amiens, France. Hardesty was imprisoned at Ratstatt and Villingen Prisoner of War Camps for eight months. This was a photograph of Hardesty with his nieces, Mary Lee Wilson and Frances Hardesty.
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| Title | John Hardesty Photograph - 1919 |
| Creator | Unknown |
| Source | Unknown. John Hardesty Photograph. 1919. John Franklin Hardesty Papers, 1867-2007. A2293. Missouri History Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | John Franklin Hardesty entered the U.S. Army Medical Corps and volunteered to serve as a surgeon with the British Army during WWI. In March of 1918, he was captured by Germans in Amiens, France. Hardesty was imprisoned at Ratstatt and Villingen Prisoner of War Camps for eight months. This was a photograph of Hardesty with his nieces, Mary Lee Wilson and Frances Hardesty. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918 |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A2239 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | 1919 |
| Language | English |