{"id":52063,"date":"2019-08-13T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=52063"},"modified":"2019-08-13T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T15:19:09","slug":"military-records-in-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/military-records-in-newspapers.html","title":{"rendered":"Military Records in Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pulling newspaper articles about my relatives who served in the military, from the colonial wars down to cousins who died in recent wars. So, I was pleased to see my grandfather listed in this master list of WWI veterans who served from Stamford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52067\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list.png\" alt=\"An article about WWI veterans from Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford Advocate newspaper article 17 July 1919\" width=\"851\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list.png 851w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list-768x352.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 17 July 1919, page 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This list of 2,336 individuals who served in the war was compiled by the Town Clerk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/tree\/person\/details\/9H47-63T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George R. Close<\/a>. It was published in the town newspaper to celebrate their service and to enlist the public in making sure that the list was complete and accurate. These names would be inscribed on the war memorial monument that was planned to be dedicated on Veterans Day 1920.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52073\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52073\" style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list-corrections.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list-corrections.png\" alt=\"An article about WWI veterans from Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford Advocate newspaper article 17 July 1919\" width=\"345\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list-corrections.png 345w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-0717-1919-wwi-list-corrections-285x300.png 285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 17 July 1919, page 8<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to this article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cWith co-operation on the part of the public \u2013 and everyone should be willing to co-operate in such a cause \u2013 it is possible for Stamford to have an absolutely correct honor roll of its soldiers, sailors, war secretaries and chaplains.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe asterisk before names on the list indicates that the person in question has reported his discharge to the Town Clerk. All such discharges should be reported.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I knew that my grandfather had served in World War I. In fact, the <em>Stamford Advocate<\/em> had written about his service the year before.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_52077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52077\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-1026-1918-william-kemp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-1026-1918-william-kemp.png\" alt=\"An article about William Kemp, Stamford Advocate newspaper article 26 October 1918\" width=\"211\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-1026-1918-william-kemp.png 211w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/stamford-advocate-newspaper-1026-1918-william-kemp-142x300.png 142w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: GenealogyBank, Stamford Advocate (Stamford, Connecticut), 26 October 1918, page 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Newspapers are a good source for the military service of your relatives. Newspapers are the record of every day of their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about searching old newspapers to learn about his grandfather William Kemp\u2019s WWI service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12713],"tags":[12,2719,2460,2020],"class_list":["post-52063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-research-tips","tag-genealogy","tag-genealogy-search-tips","tag-military-records","tag-newspaper-archives"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/photo-0813-2019-featured-graphic-wwi-monument.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}