The Snapshots in Time Collection

American AEF Soldier Posing at a Wooden Stile, World War I, c. 1917-1919

American AEF Soldier Posing at a Wooden Stile, World War I, c. 1917-1919

An American "doughboy" of the U.S. Army pauses for an informal snapshot beside a countryside stile during World War I. Dressed in the standard wool service uniform and campaign hat of the American Expeditionary Forces, he represents the hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops who trained and were billeted in the English and French countryside before deployment to the front lines of the Western Front, 1917-1918. Project: 218365