Description: COs waiting their turn for a hearing before the Board of Inquiry. Guards stand to the extreme left and right. Guard on the right was Manuel Seiker, a regular from Hillsboro, Kansas. Used in Gerlof Homan, American Mennonites and the Great War, p. 136.
Date: 1918?
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original size: 10.5 x 6 cm
Source: Henry Gaede; D. R. Hoeppner?
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Description: Mess Hall Line
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 13.3 x 7.6 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 2. Soldiers lined up for chow in front of a mess hall at Ft.Riley
Description: COs Peeling Potatoes
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 13.3 x 7.6 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 3. The two men standing and wearing aprons were regulars assigned to kitchen duty with the COs. Used in Mennonite Life, Sept. 1975, p.19
Description: COs Peeling Potatoes
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 4
Description: COs Cutting Grass
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: N/A
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 5. We have negatives.
Description: Released Prisoner Henry Gaede
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 5.7 x 10.2 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 7. Released prisoner Henry Gaede beside new living quarters known as 3Bn Tents following imprisonment in guard house. Gaede was put into the guard house following his refusal to march and accept a weapon. Text on photo: "When a feller needs a friend."
Description: COs Outside of Living Quarters
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 9. (L to R) Ben Eitzen, A.E. Hiebert, and Henry Gaede in front of 3 Bn tents which served as temporary living quarters for most of the COs.
Description: COs at Rest during Hike
Date: 1918
Location: Countryside around Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 11.4 x 7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 10. COs at rest during a hike through the countryside surrounding Fort Riley. They are flanked on both ends by guards. The arrow points to Henry Gaede.
Description: COs Outside of Barracks
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No.11. The COs were eventually gathered together into one company (Co. R, 1st Casual Battalion). Pictured is one of the barracks. The three men in the left-hand corner of the picture are peeling potatoes.
Description: COs on a hike
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 12. The commanding officer, with hands on hips, looks somewhat exasperated and disgusted with the entire operation.
Description: COs outside Mess Hall
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 5.7 x 10.2 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 13. Chow time. William Knak (left), Henry Gaede (right).
Description: COs in front of the Fort Riley depot
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 16. (L to R) Carl Johnson, Menno Claassen, Ben Eitzen, Unidentified CO, Henry Gaede
Description: Henry Gaede reads a letter from home
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 3.8 x 6.4 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 18
Description: Henry Gaede at Fort Riley
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 6 x 10.2 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 19
Description: Hillsboro CO boating trip
Date: 1918
Location: Near Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 21. (L to R) Henry Gaede, William Knuk, Ben Eitzen (hand raised), Menno Claassen, Pete Evert, Fred Swartzendruber
Description: Hillsboro CO boating trip
Date: 1918
Location: Near Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 22. Gaede and Swartzendruber wait for a rescue squad. CO in background is drying clothes after having fallen into the river.
Description: Seeing the sights around Fort Riley
Date: 1918
Location: Near Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 5.7 x 10.2 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 24. (L to R) Henry Gaede, Ben Eitzen
Description: Aerial View of Fort Riley
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 25. Note the tents interspersed between the wooden barracks.
Description: Company A, 1st Casual Battalion embarking on a hike
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 27
Description: Regulars in Training
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 29. Gaede noted that the Army "tried to make devils of us" during these training sessions. To teach men to obey orders, they sang marching song together and were made to pick up cigarette butts on command. When told to do so, they marched in formation to trash cans to deposit their collection of butts.
Description: Men Incapable of Soldiery
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 30. In the rush to create an army, men who were incapable of soldiery were inducted, drafted, and sent to camp. Here Henry Gaede (far left) and Pete Evert (second from right) pose for a picture with some of these men who found their way to Fort Riley. Gaede called them "half-wits." The tents in the background housed one man each.
Description: COs investigating trench
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 31. COs investigating one of the many trenches at Fort Riley that were used to ready men for combat in Europe.
Description: Visitors from home
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 32. COs in uniform (L to R)-H. Gaede, Jake Nickel (cousin of Gaede). Car driver, Henry Penner; young woman in backseat, Mary Gaede (Henry's sister).
Description: Barrack 37 of Company R, 1st Casual Battalion
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 36. (L to R) William Knuk, A.E. Hiebert, Joseph Byler, _____ Voth, Ben Eitzen, Unknown Man
Description: Men of Company A, 1st Casual Battalion, inside one of their barracks
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 12.1 x 7.3 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 37. Two of the men in the right foreground are reading their Bibles.
Description: Kansas Winter at Ft. Riley
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 13.3 x 7.9 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 38. (L to R) Pete Evert, P.C. Wohlgemuth, John Pauls, Henry Buller, Jacob Kroeker, Henry Gaede
Description: COs with cannon
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 40. (L to R) Bill Knak and Ben Eitzen
Description: COs at Marker for Geographic center of U.S.
Date: 1918
Location: Near Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 41. (L to R) Menno Buller, A.E. Hiebert, Bill Knuk, Ben Dirks, Unknown Man
Description: Tired feet of Henry Gaede
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 5.7 x 10.2 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
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Notes: No. 42. Writing on shoe soles added in pen after the fact
Description: COs at rest
Date: 1918
Location: Fort Riley, Kansas
MLA filing: World War I - Gaede, Henry, Collection
Original Size: 10.2 x 5.7 cm
Source: Henry Gaede
Photographer:
Notes: No. 43. (L to R) Ben Eitzen, A.E. Hiebert, Henry Gaede, Albert Schroeder
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