According to family lore my Great Grandfather, Dr Whitman Gibson Stickney, organized people stateside to serve in WW1 (aka The Great War) & went to the front lines as a Doctor. This sent me on a search some years ago and although I found very little compared to WW2, what I did find was profound.
A film worth seeing is airing on C-Span's American History channel this weekend (reel America) showing World War 1 in 1915 footage. It can be also be found at shootingthegreatwar.blogspot.com or go to the Library of Congress (loc.gov).
I will try to relocate the oversized picture book I found in our local library & post some of the pictures. They are graphic, but this war is largely ignored and so very relevent today.
Hello Elsie,
ReplyDeleteI am compiling a history of Brownfield Maine which includes the Stickney family. Do you have any details/images I may not have on the family that I could use in the book. Your Great Grandfather was instrumental in writing the History of Brownfield up until his untimely demise. William Teg had worked with him and finished the book. He was credited inside the book but not as a co-author. Your family was not pleased at the time. I have some documents and images which are not going into the history which I will be happy to share with you.
Regards,
Bradford Fuller
Brownfield Public Library
Brownfield Historical Society