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Ellis was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 28, 1894. His mother died when he was an infant, and his father was too poor to provide for him properly. He was adopted by a Polish family, the Moczdlowskis, who lived in East St. Louis, Illinois.
The Department of Missouri resulted from the reorganization and breakup of the Department of the West on November 9, 1861, after Abraham Lincoln fired John C. Frémont when he would not rescind his order emancipating the slaves of Missouri and imposing martial law on the state. David Hunter served briefly as the last commander Department of the ...
On 11 November 2009, despite the survival to that date of Claude Choules and Florence Green, the commemoration was held following the death of Harry Patch. [39] On 21 November 2006, the House of Commons of Canada approved a state funeral for the last World War I veteran to have served in the Canadian forces, [40] but this was declined by John ...
State-of-the-art interactive displays [4] Sound booths with audio recordings of the period [35] Two theaters have an educational narrative. One precedes the first gallery, and a larger one is passed through to enter the second gallery. [4] The Edward Jones Research Center, carrying 75,000 archival documents, 9,500 library items, and additional ...
The M2 gas mask was a French-made gas mask used by French, British and American forces from April 1916 to August 1918 during World War I. [1] The M2 was fabricated in large quantities, with about 29,300,000 being made during the war. [ 2 ]
Macpherson presented his idea to the War Office Anti-Gas Department on 10 May 1915, with prototypes being developed soon after. [9] The design was adopted by the British Army and introduced as the "British Smoke Hood" in June 1915 and manufactured until September 1915. [10] 2.5 million masks were manufactured before being superseded.
The booking mug shot of Jennifer Hall after her arrest on May 12, 2022. A respiratory therapist, Hall pleaded guilty in 2023 of killing two of her patients in 2002 at a hospital in Chillicothe, Mo.
Harry Richard Landis (12 December 1899 – 4 February 2008) [1] was, at age 108, the older of the last two American First World War veterans. The final one was Frank Buckles, who died in 2011.