World War I -- Veteran Experience


Navy sailors on mess duty, 1918

Navy sailors on mess duty, 1918
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Maine Historical Society

Portrait of a group of Navy men working mess duty in October of 1918. Back-row center with his hand resting on his friend's shoulder is Joseph L. Murray (to the right of the man in black shirt), a Portland-born man who served out of Rhode Island during World War I, between August of 1918 and July of 1919.

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