<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<itemContainer xmlns="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5 http://omeka.org/schemas/omeka-xml/v5/omeka-xml-5-0.xsd" uri="https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/items/browse?output=omeka-xml&amp;page=30&amp;sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CTitle" accessDate="2026-09-22T11:59:14+00:00">
  <miscellaneousContainer>
    <pagination>
      <pageNumber>30</pageNumber>
      <perPage>20</perPage>
      <totalResults>1145</totalResults>
    </pagination>
  </miscellaneousContainer>
  <item itemId="1249" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="2430">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/ef466d873ebdc1edd1ad28516346287d.jpg</src>
        <authentication>66219aa32dc1d9f9ca6a804539efe334</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="1">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="441">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1916</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15039">
              <text>Kilby</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15040">
              <text>Harry Lee</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15041">
              <text>11 August 1893</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="32">
          <name>Birthplace</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15042">
              <text>Portsmouth, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15043">
              <text>1 September 1978</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="63">
          <name>Place of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15044">
              <text>Portsmouth, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15045">
              <text>John Thompson Kilby Jr. and Wortley F. King Kilby Moffett</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="74">
          <name>Spouse(s)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15046">
              <text>Josephine Thelma Harrell Kilby</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15047">
              <text>1916</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15048">
              <text>No, but did attend VPI during the 1912-1913 school year.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15049">
              <text>Army</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15050">
              <text>Company K, 9th Battalion Reserve Training Company at Camp Lee, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15051">
              <text>Private</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15052">
              <text>Served between 10 September 1918 and 21 December 1918.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="60">
          <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
          <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15053">
              <text>No</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="36">
          <name>Bibliography</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="15054">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Veterans Affair Master Index 1917 1940, Prior War File (see attached file for Harry Lee Kilby)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/items/62834e04-4638-49b8-ae9a-9baa914ad090" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;The Bugle, 1913 yearbook, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg, Virginia), pg. 121.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="15038">
                <text>Kilby, Harry Lee</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="250" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="958">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/8266113ace0b77f8a93987c47d3fa7fa.tif</src>
        <authentication>5d8d7bf4bae735b400b1d4a283e00ffc</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="959">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/de489fc1cfa222ea9b2e50015fd640ef.tif</src>
        <authentication>d2f450d0c9b80a905b44482f9ac4290d</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="960">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/5517cc2d731e2aebb927ca89b838713d.tif</src>
        <authentication>4a30305f3d3fa9d60e2b611a1241bf82</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="5">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3563">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1914</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3945">
              <text>King</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3946">
              <text>Paul</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3947">
              <text>1914</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3948">
              <text>First Lieutenant</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3949">
              <text>Reserve Officers</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3950">
              <text>Engineers</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5197">
              <text>October 4, 1892</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3944">
                <text>King, Paul</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="1">
        <name>questionnaire</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="481" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="2366">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/1c3f5005f0d4c610e69ede52eaa7b945.jpg</src>
        <authentication>de2007b9e81f08523f5aa306dc195cfe</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="2367">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/95655447c554ef903b448f2c2a1cc347.jpg</src>
        <authentication>6498a18740bfa0235ce7bf428f8bb326</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="7">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3565">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1912</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6060">
              <text>Kinsey</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6061">
              <text>Edward Lee</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6062">
              <text>1912</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6063">
              <text>Private</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6064">
              <text>Army</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6065">
              <text>Ambulance Company 319, 305th Sanitary Train, 80th Division</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14510">
              <text>Boones Mill, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="55">
          <name>County and/or State</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14511">
              <text>Franklin County, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14512">
              <text>14 May 1891</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="32">
          <name>Birthplace</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14513">
              <text>Boones Mill, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14514">
              <text>24 September 1958</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="63">
          <name>Place of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14515">
              <text>Boones Mill, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14516">
              <text>DAniel abraham Kinsey and Sarah Mildred Naff Kinsey</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="74">
          <name>Spouse(s)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14517">
              <text>Zora Elizabeth Flora Kinsey</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="75">
          <name>Children</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14518">
              <text>Alma Janis Kinsey Jewell and Ray Arthur Lee Kinsey Sr.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14519">
              <text>Agriculture, entered the Two Year Agriculture program in the 1910-1911 school year </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14520">
              <text>Yes, from the Two Year Agriculture Program</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14521">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;returned from France on the &lt;em&gt;Rotterdam&lt;/em&gt; on 20 May 1919&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="36">
          <name>Bibliography</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14522">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;U.S., Army Transport Service Arriving and Departing Passenger Lists, 1910-1939 for Edward L. Kinsey (see attached file)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="6059">
                <text>Kinsey, Edward Lee</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="1173" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="2126">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/972e55d152fab91694c42ef2aa21707b.jpg</src>
        <authentication>f040a807d831ba9f68c50721302b4228</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="2127">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/f1b2bde1576f744ab5a07306911c5095.jpg</src>
        <authentication>33734ff84a7981ec8adf8bc839f65fec</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="4">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="1976">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1915</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13359">
              <text>Kiracofe</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13360">
              <text>Charles Eugene</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13361">
              <text>Mount Solon, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="55">
          <name>County and/or State</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13362">
              <text>Augusta County, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13363">
              <text>19 December 1890</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="32">
          <name>Birthplace</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13364">
              <text>Thorny Branch, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13365">
              <text>27 April 1954</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="63">
          <name>Place of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13366">
              <text>New Orleans, Louisiana</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13367">
              <text>Walter Lee Kiracofe and Lydia Kiracofe</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="74">
          <name>Spouse(s)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13368">
              <text>Martha Edmundson Wellons</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13369">
              <text>1915</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13370">
              <text>Electrical Engineering</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13371">
              <text>Yes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13372">
              <text>US Army, Air Service</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13373">
              <text>26th Photographic Section, US Air Service Aeronautics</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13374">
              <text>Private</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13375">
              <text>Departed for France on the Agamemnon on 16 October 1918</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="60">
          <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
          <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13376">
              <text>No</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="13358">
                <text>Kiracofe, Charles Eugene</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="134" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="1685">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/dec8a91d318ca3736bb62e717dfbfa82.jpg</src>
        <authentication>b4eb9e5a175d374b628f8847e67724a1</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="1686">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/1ef96b79132b943de7a9b60c7ec5aaf6.jpg</src>
        <authentication>71ccc0d060e44404e8732e03637c07cc</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="2">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="442">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1917</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
            <element elementId="41">
              <name>Description</name>
              <description>An account of the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="1946">
                  <text>This collection contains the profiles of all World War One veterans from the VPI Class of 1917.</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1284">
              <text>Kirby</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1285">
              <text>Carl James</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1287">
              <text>1917</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1288">
              <text>Agriculture</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1289">
              <text>No, but transferred to North Carolina State University his senior year and graduated in 1917. </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="60">
          <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
          <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1290">
              <text>Y</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1291">
              <text>Second Lieutenant</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="62">
          <name>Retired Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold upon retirement?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1292">
              <text>N/a</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1293">
              <text>Reserve Officers</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="1294">
              <text>Signal Corps </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11421">
              <text>Baywood</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="55">
          <name>County and/or State</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11422">
              <text>Grayson County, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11423">
              <text>July 13, 1888</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="32">
          <name>Birthplace</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11424">
              <text>Grayson, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11425">
              <text>December 7, 1952</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="63">
          <name>Place of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11426">
              <text>Sherwood Forest, Maryland</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11427">
              <text>James K, Nancy</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="73">
          <name>Siblings</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11428">
              <text>Fred R, Bitha L, Sena D, John M </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="74">
          <name>Spouse(s)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11429">
              <text>Eula Price Thompson (1936-1952), Blanche Wustemburg (1919-1930) </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="75">
          <name>Children</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11430">
              <text>Chantal M</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11431">
              <text>Enlistment February 22 1918, Release date January 12 1919 </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="36">
          <name>Bibliography</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11432">
              <text>Ancestry.com&#13;
1940 Census&#13;
1930 Census&#13;
1920 Census&#13;
1917 Agromeck &#13;
U.S. Dept Veterans Affairs BIRLS&#13;
Social Security Application&#13;
</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="1283">
                <text>Kirby, Carl James</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="46" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="386">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/de5e5cd05ab66cdf11f94f28e0c98ae8.jpg</src>
        <authentication>1781e9e5562b35843e1355a5f2495560</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="387">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/a0eb1ecfac73b0ed0cdd967dfb2cf05a.jpg</src>
        <authentication>02719b9092eaad4693769de8128bb084</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="1">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="441">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1916</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="227">
              <text>Kirby</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="228">
              <text>Fred Robert</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="229">
              <text>Baywood, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="55">
          <name>County and/or State</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="230">
              <text>Grayson</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="226">
                <text>Kirby, Fred Robert</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="381" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="6">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3564">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1913</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5004">
              <text>Kirkbride</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5005">
              <text>E.L.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5006">
              <text>1913</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5007">
              <text>Private (Bugler)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5008">
              <text>National Guard (General)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="5009">
              <text>Twenty-Eigth Engineer</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="5003">
                <text>Kirkbride, E.L.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="482" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="7">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3565">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1912</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6067">
              <text>Kirkbride</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6068">
              <text>Paul</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6069">
              <text>1912</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6070">
              <text>First Sargeant</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6071">
              <text>National Guard (General)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6072">
              <text>Twenty-First Engineers</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="6066">
                <text>Kirkbride, Paul</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="703" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="16">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3574">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1903</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7627">
              <text>Knepp</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7628">
              <text>Warren</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7629">
              <text>1903</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7630">
              <text>First Lieutenant</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7631">
              <text>Virginia National Guard</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7632">
              <text>Medical</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="7626">
                <text>Knepp, Warren</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="1208" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="2309">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/192289d5f795a1ff35a1b0c8b2f8c042.jpg</src>
        <authentication>59ee3de39b660a4fb3f1877da434fb9c</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="2310">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/524c50c5dc3bc6de698ba899d18ffb07.jpg</src>
        <authentication>c1273707841a760fe73294bf3ce62e56</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="5">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3563">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1914</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14059">
              <text>Kollefrath</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14060">
              <text>Howard Albert</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14061">
              <text>Rice Depot, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="55">
          <name>County and/or State</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14062">
              <text>Prince Edward County, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14063">
              <text>22 September 1887</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14064">
              <text>18 February 1962</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14065">
              <text>August and Barbara</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14066">
              <text>1914</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14067">
              <text>No, but did attend VPI in the 1910-1911 school year. Transferred to Ohio Northern University where he graduated in Engineering in 1914.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14068">
              <text>Army</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14069">
              <text>5th Battalion, 22nd Engineers</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14070">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Served overseas from 15 September 1918 to 21 April 1919&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Service information from the &lt;em&gt;Ohio, Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in World War I, 1917-1918&lt;/em&gt;: "Engineers C Fort Benj Harrison Ind to 3 Aug 1918; 5 Battalion 22 Engineers to Discharge Private American Expeditionary Forces 15 Sept 1918 to 17 Dec 1918. Honorable Discharge 21 Apr 1919."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="36">
          <name>Bibliography</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14071">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;1914 Ohio Northern Univeristy yearbook&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ohio, Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in World War I, 1917-1918&lt;/em&gt;, page 9414&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="60">
          <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
          <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14072">
              <text>No</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="14058">
                <text>Kollefrath, Howard Albert</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="251" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="5">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3563">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1914</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3952">
              <text>Kreger</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3953">
              <text>John D.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3954">
              <text>1914</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3955">
              <text>1st Lieutenant and then Captain</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3956">
              <text>Army</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3957">
              <text>318th Infantry, 80th Division</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12452">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;assigned to the 318th Infantry Regiment on December 15, 1917&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;transferred from the 318th Regiment on May 3, 1918&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13377">
              <text>Abingdon, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3951">
                <text>Kreger, John D.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="1072" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="1891">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/4f16f302d0b2f29a0a7d3d4a4d0bc61d.jpg</src>
        <authentication>9901561e63b2ddfaf763ab6aa3a4f0d7</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="1892">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/f3bdbaa740d744c41320a9d7cf8bea6b.jpg</src>
        <authentication>f33e93c02fc9606296e64a4006cd4aaa</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="1893">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/e0285bb0281a59e4731d560b7e732b76.jpg</src>
        <authentication>01cb1f70c486a607a254e61dc66b843c</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="22">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="5320">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1923</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12058">
              <text>Kyhn</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12059">
              <text>Everett August</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="56">
          <name>Nicknames or Other Names</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12060">
              <text>"Sea Captain"</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12061">
              <text>Portsmouth, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12062">
              <text>1923</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12063">
              <text>Chemical Engineering</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12064">
              <text>Yes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12065">
              <text>Army</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12066">
              <text>5th Field Artillery, 1st Division</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12067">
              <text>Sergeant </text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12068">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Reported in the 1923 VPI Bugle that in the war he fought at Cantigny, Soissons, St. Mihiel, and Meuse-Argonne. However it was also reported that he did not like to talk about his wartime service.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Served for 26 months&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="12057">
                <text>Kyhn, Everett August</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="656" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="1343">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/38c55b67167fc140b4a2ad5efee659be.jpg</src>
        <authentication>3274438b37fc3f0bff28fd559f8120c7</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="1344">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/53ad48020bea75228aed2916ad332c54.jpg</src>
        <authentication>79aff0a3bdc2a9d9749149c3d6123086</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="1746">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/3079d62224f1168711a62c894b135694.JPG</src>
        <authentication>ddc81309ac2f6c1a4b0eab2d3f70f582</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="13">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3571">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1906</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7297">
              <text>Kyle</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7298">
              <text>Bernard Hewett</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7299">
              <text>1906</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7300">
              <text>Major</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7301">
              <text>US Army</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="7302">
              <text>Medical Corps - attached to the 12th Field Artillery AEF, 2nd Division</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="56">
          <name>Nicknames or Other Names</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="9561">
              <text>Buffalo Station, Virgnia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="9562">
              <text>Preparatory Medicine</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="34">
          <name>Occupation</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11907">
              <text>Practiced medicine in Amherst, Virginia before the war.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12016">
              <text>Joshua Warner and Ella Catharine Aggee Kyle</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="76">
          <name>Decorations or Citations</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12017">
              <text>&lt;strong&gt;French Croix de Gurre with Palm and Gilt Star; Vierzy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Palm Citation: "He always performed his duties with the greatest courage and admirable coolness under fire of the enemy, giving to those about him the finest example of heroism."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gilt Star Citation: "On July 21, 1918 while on duty as a surgeon of the 1st Battalion he accompanied it under a violent bombardment to an advanced position in front of Vierzy. He established a first-aid station and operated it with remarkable coolness under an intense fire of high explosive and gas shells. He never ceased his efforts in behalf of his wounded whose evacuation he effectived until the battalion was withddrawn from combat."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Citation by Division Commander&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Citation: "Captain Kyle has rendedred medical aid to the wounded at all times in a highly commendable manner, and his conduct in the discharge of his duty under fire has been most fearless." By command of Major General Bundy.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Cited by Division Commander; Vierzy, July 21, 1918&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Citation: "The names and deeds performed by the following named officers and men of this Division are published as being well worthy of emulation and praise: (Extract) 'Captain Bernard H. Kyle, M.R.C. 12th Field Artillery: As First Battalion Surgeon, he was with the battalion under heavy shell fire, July 21, 1918, taking up an advanced position in front of Vierzy. He established and matintained the Battalion Aid Station, collecting the wounded and applying dressings under heavy fire of high explosive, gas and shrapnel, which were falling all around the battalion station at Montramboeuf Ferme, carrying on his work with a calm exterior which inspired his men with confidence and courage. He was at his post from early morning until late at night until the battalion was withdrawn, caring for the gassed and wounded, all of whom were safely removed before he retired with teh battalion. This at Vierzy, July 21st, 1918." by Command of Major GEneral Lejeune (signed) Preston Brown, Brigadier-General, Cheif of Staff, Madison Pearson, Major, Adjutant."&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;The above citations were taken from pgs. 93-94, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;em&gt;Virginians of Distinguished Service of the World War, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;span&gt;published by the Virginia War History Commission, 1923&lt;/span&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="7296">
                <text>Kyle, Bernard Hewett</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="330" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="1921">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/f61c68f5e3f6c4af60877ef95deac56c.JPG</src>
        <authentication>10b4c01ffc466ad1f55c92a7f85966fb</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="2270">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/353d13fa85f3133dc865a295043f6a04.jpeg</src>
        <authentication>f687dc85fef2be2017de4d0b66c58a35</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="10">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3568">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1909</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4600">
              <text>Lake</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4601">
              <text>Maury Montgomery</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4602">
              <text>1909</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4603">
              <text>Private</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4604">
              <text>October 4, 1918</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="69">
          <name>Cause of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4605">
              <text>Killed in Action</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="63">
          <name>Place of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="4606">
              <text>Bois de Ogon, France (buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="9538">
              <text>Jeffersonton, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12548">
              <text>August 11, 1886</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="32">
          <name>Birthplace</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12549">
              <text>Wellington, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12550">
              <text>E Company, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12551">
              <text>Joined in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on September 29th. Regiment suffered heavy casualties. Killed in heavy fighting near Bois de Ogon, Hill 274.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12993">
              <text>No. Left VPI after two years.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="4599">
                <text>Lake, Maury Montgomery</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="3">
        <name>died in service</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="528" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="8">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3566">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1911</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6394">
              <text>Lamb</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6395">
              <text>F. B.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6396">
              <text>1911</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6397">
              <text>Second Lieutenant</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6398">
              <text>Reserve Officers</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="6399">
              <text>Infantry</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="6393">
                <text>Lamb, F. B.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="252" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="5">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3563">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1914</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3959">
              <text>Lambert</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3960">
              <text>Courtney Brooks</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3961">
              <text>1914</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3962">
              <text>Chief Aviator, Corporal</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3963">
              <text>3 August 1917</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="69">
          <name>Cause of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3964">
              <text>Killed in Training (in United States) and is buried in Cartwright Cemetery in Brooke County, West Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3965">
              <text>Student Aviators</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3966">
              <text>West Virginia Flying Corps</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12649">
              <text>Welch, West Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12650">
              <text>June 30, 1892</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="12651">
              <text>He was killed when the motor of his airplane stopped at 300 feet up, on his first student flight. This happened at the WV Aviation School, in Beech Bottom WV.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14073">
              <text>No, but did attend VPI in the 1910-1911 school year.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="60">
          <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
          <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="14074">
              <text>Yes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3958">
                <text>Lambert, Courtney Brooks</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
    <tagContainer>
      <tag tagId="3">
        <name>died in service</name>
      </tag>
    </tagContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="184" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="389">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/2acdee1ecb10430a368462a5c84bb40a.jpg</src>
        <authentication>4335c1fc163506ff7c8ca41e8c1d63c7</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="390">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/6d8f58906142d458dec7bc1e9b568606.jpg</src>
        <authentication>c1786e0fb3847a5abfb033f91d6b6e45</authentication>
      </file>
      <file fileId="391">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/733b86509154ddc6516b6ce9f7da0365.jpg</src>
        <authentication>ddc6972bb78b44b65efe3afec4e0a52d</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="1">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="441">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1916</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3371">
              <text>Lambert</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3372">
              <text>James Howard</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="56">
          <name>Nicknames or Other Names</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3373">
              <text>"Monk," "Reveille"</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3374">
              <text>Welch, West Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="55">
          <name>County and/or State</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3375">
              <text>West Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3376">
              <text>VPI Class of 1916</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3377">
              <text>Agriculture</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="59">
          <name>Graduated</name>
          <description>Yes or no, did this individual graduate from VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3378">
              <text>Yes</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3379">
              <text>Navy</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="3380">
              <text>Master-at-Arms</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="3370">
                <text>Lambert, James Howard</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="1185" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="6">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3564">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1913</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13622">
              <text>Lambert</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13623">
              <text>Robert Hilliard</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="54">
          <name>Hometown</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13624">
              <text>South Hill, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="31">
          <name>Birth Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13625">
              <text>10 August 1892</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="33">
          <name>Death Date</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13626">
              <text>10 November 1974</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="63">
          <name>Place of Death</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13627">
              <text>Richmond, Virginia</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="72">
          <name>Parents</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13628">
              <text>Paul Farrar Lambert and Norma Dandrige Hilliard</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="74">
          <name>Spouse(s)</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13629">
              <text>Margaret Ethel Yongue</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13630">
              <text>1913</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="58">
          <name>Undergraduate Major</name>
          <description>What did this individual major in while at VPI?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13631">
              <text>Agriculture (Two year agriculture student)</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="13632">
              <text>Unknown. Listed as WW1 veteran on his death certificate.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="13621">
                <text>Lambert, Robert Hilliard Sr.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="768" public="1" featured="0">
    <fileContainer>
      <file fileId="1708">
        <src>https://vpiworldwarone.vtlibraries.net/files/original/3a17f9aa4ed4f4501e49b39fcbb2d1d2.jpg</src>
        <authentication>71c2abda326294ea26c69b66de94e947</authentication>
      </file>
    </fileContainer>
    <collection collectionId="21">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3604">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1919</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8085">
              <text>Lancaster</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8086">
              <text>G. D.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8087">
              <text>1919</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8088">
              <text>Second Lieutenant</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="70">
          <name>Other Events</name>
          <description>What other significant events, outside of the military, occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8089">
              <text>Training May 1917</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8090">
              <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Army Signal Corps&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;3rd Foreign Detachment in France&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="8091">
              <text>Aviation; 3rd Foreign Detachment</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="64">
          <name>Military Events</name>
          <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="11870">
              <text>Noted in &lt;em&gt;The Virginia Tech &lt;/em&gt;as being in the 3rd Foreign Detachment in France as of 31 January 1918.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="8084">
                <text>Lancaster, G. D.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
  <item itemId="992" public="1" featured="0">
    <collection collectionId="20">
      <elementSetContainer>
        <elementSet elementSetId="1">
          <name>Dublin Core</name>
          <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
          <elementContainer>
            <element elementId="50">
              <name>Title</name>
              <description>A name given to the resource</description>
              <elementTextContainer>
                <elementText elementTextId="3603">
                  <text>VPI Class of 1918</text>
                </elementText>
              </elementTextContainer>
            </element>
          </elementContainer>
        </elementSet>
      </elementSetContainer>
    </collection>
    <itemType itemTypeId="12">
      <name>Person</name>
      <description>An individual.</description>
      <elementContainer>
        <element elementId="52">
          <name>Last Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10079">
              <text>Lancaster</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="53">
          <name>First and Middle Name</name>
          <description/>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10080">
              <text>G. G.</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="57">
          <name>VPI Graduating Class</name>
          <description>In what VPI class did this individual graduate or what class should they have graduated from?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10081">
              <text>1918</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="61">
          <name>Rank</name>
          <description>What military rank did this individual hold?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10082">
              <text>N/a</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="66">
          <name>Service Branch</name>
          <description>What branch of the military did this individual serve in?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10083">
              <text>Student Aviators</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
        <element elementId="67">
          <name>Unit</name>
          <description>What unit or ship did this individual serve in or on?</description>
          <elementTextContainer>
            <elementText elementTextId="10084">
              <text>N/a</text>
            </elementText>
          </elementTextContainer>
        </element>
      </elementContainer>
    </itemType>
    <elementSetContainer>
      <elementSet elementSetId="1">
        <name>Dublin Core</name>
        <description>The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.</description>
        <elementContainer>
          <element elementId="50">
            <name>Title</name>
            <description>A name given to the resource</description>
            <elementTextContainer>
              <elementText elementTextId="10078">
                <text>Lancaster, G. G.</text>
              </elementText>
            </elementTextContainer>
          </element>
        </elementContainer>
      </elementSet>
    </elementSetContainer>
  </item>
</itemContainer>
