The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: LETTER 11 24 1918
Letters written from St. Aignan, France on November 24, 1918, as Pvt. Willis W. Wagener of the 1st Gas Regiment waited out life in a replacement camp weeks after the Armistice. With censorship just lifted, he writes freely of the coming winter and the uncertain wait to sail home, enclosing an embroidered silk Christmas card stitched by French artisans.
WWI Censored Military Mail Envelope, Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, 1st Gas Regiment, A.E.F. France, to J.A. Wagener, Ceres, California
Embroidered Silk 'Happy Christmas' Postcard, Pvt. Willis W. Wagener Correspondence, November 1918
Interior Page of Sentimental Greeting Card, WWI Wagener Family Correspondence (November 1918)
Handwritten Christmas Greeting from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener, St. Aignan, France, November 24, 1918
WWI Letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener to His Father, St. Aignan, France, November 24, 1918
Handwritten Letter from Pvt. Willis W. Wagener to His Father, November 24, 1918 (Page)
