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Title
Veterans Legacy Program Collection
Alternative Title
VLP Collection
Subject
Veterans--Florida
Description
In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s <a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a>. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Is Part Of
Veterans Legacy Program Collection, RICHES Program
Type
Collection
Digital Collection
<div class="element-text"><a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES MI</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a></div>
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Title
U.S.S. Mount Vernon
Alternative Title
USS Mount Vernon
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
Description
The <em>USS Mount Vernon</em> after being torpedoed by a German submarine in the eastern Atlantic on September 5, 1918. The torpedo killed 36 men. The ship made port the next day in Brest, France, where it was given a temporary patch. It is possible that Buster Williams (1887-1945) was on the ship at this time.<br /><br /> Buster Williams was born on December 16, 1887, in Barnwell, South Carolina. He worked as a farmer in Elkton, Florida, before being drafted into the United States Army in St. Augustine, Florida, on June 19, 1918. Williams served for about two months in the 135th Depot Brigade, a unit responsible for processing and training new recruits. From August 18, 1918, until the end of the war, he was part of Company B of the 536th Engineers Service Battalion. The 536th boarded their ship for France on August 26, 1918. The unit likely worked at the St. Aignan depot, where they would have been responsible for loading and unloading equipment and serving in primarily a support capacity. Once the war ended, Williams returned to Florida, where he married his wife, Ethel, and had three children. Williams worked as a laborer for a cemetery. He, his wife, and his son-in-law remained in the same house until Williams's death on December 28, 1945. He is buried in the St. Augustine National Cemetery.<br /><br /> In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s <a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a>. The program continues, engaging a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in national cemeteries available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 headstones at four national cemeteries, two in Florida (Florida National Cemetery and St. Augustine National Cemetery) and two in France (American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries at Aisne-Marne and the Meuse-Argonne), where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Type
Still Image
Source
Digital reproduction of original black and white still photograph: NH 89149, Collection of Lieutenant P.W. Yeatman, USN (Retired), Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/210" target="_blank">Veterans Legacy Program Collection</a>
Coverage
Brest, France
Creator
<a href="https://www.navy.mil/" target="_blank">United States Navy</a>
Publisher
<a href="https://history.navy.mil/" target="_blank">Naval History and Heritage Command</a>
Date Created
ca. 1918-09-05
Format
image/jpg
Extent
98.2 KB
Medium
1 black and white still photograph
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by the <a href="https://www.navy.mil/" target="_blank">United States Navy</a> and published by the <a href="https://history.navy.mil/" target="_blank">Naval History and Heritage Command</a>.
Rights Holder
This resource is not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of the work. Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. copyright laws:<br /><br /> • reproduce the work in print or digital form<br /> • create derivative works<br /> • perform the work publicly<br /> • display the work<br /> • distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.<br /><br /> This resource is provided here by <a href="https://riches.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES</a> for educational purposes only. For more information on copyright, please refer to <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105">Section 5</a> of <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html">Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code</a>.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
O'Neil, Rhiannon
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
<a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a>
<a href="https://www.navsource.org/" target="_blank">NavSource Naval History</a>
Source Repository
Collection of Lieutenant P.W. Yeatman, USN (Retired), Naval History and Heritage command
External Reference
Abney, Barb. "<a href="https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/" target="_blank">VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans Veterans</a>." <em>UCF Today</em>, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.
American Battle Monuments Commission. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/923834983/" target="_blank"><em>American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: A History, Guide, and Reference Book</em>. Washington, D.C., 1938.</a>
Army War College. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221518410" target="_blank"><em>Order of the Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War [Vol. 1-2], American Expeditionary Forces</em></a>. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1931-1949.
"<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17264125" target="_blank">Buster Williams (1887-1945)</a>." Online database with images, <em>Find a Grave</em>. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17264125.
Florida Department of Military Affairs. "<a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/222633" target="_blank">Buster Williams</a>." Online database with images, <em>FloridaMemory</em>. New Augustine, Florida. Box 16. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/222633.
Keene, Jennifer. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837560460" target="_blank"><em>World War I: The American Soldier Experience</em></a>. Lincoln [u.a.]: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
United States Army. <a href="http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b219-i076" target="_blank"><em>536th Engineer Service Battalion Historial Technical Report, 1919</em></a>. W.E.B. Du Bois Papers. Accessed August 6, 2018. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mmums312-b219-i076.
Office of the Quartermaster General. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=NARAWWITroops&amph=7414092">Buster Williams</a>." U.S. Army Transport Service Passenger Lists, 1910-1939. Online database with images, Ancestry.com. Hoboken, New Jersey. Record Group Number 92, Roll or Box Number 507. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=NARAWWITroops&amph=1483191.
Selective Service System. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=WW1draft&amph=70930822">Busetr Williams</a>." <em>U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. NARA microfilm publication M1509, Roll 15569277. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=WW1draft&amph=70930822.
U.S. Census Bureau. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1920usfedcen&amph=4091921">Buster Williams</a>." <em> 1920 United States Federal Census</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. New Augustine, St. Johns, Florida. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1920usfedcen&amph=4091921.
U.S. Census Bureau. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1930usfedcen&amph=7865448">Buster Williams</a>." <em>1930 United States Federal Census</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. St. Augustine, St. Johns, Florida. NARA microfilm publication T626, FHL microfilm 2340067. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1930usfedcen&amph=7865448.
536th Engineers Service Battalion
Army Transport Service
ATS
Buster Williams
military history
military service
Mount Vernon
Navy ship
troop transport ship
U.S.S. Mount Vernon
USS Mount Vernon
veterans
Veterans Administration
Veterans Legacy Program
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
WWI
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Dublin Core
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Title
Veterans Legacy Program Collection
Alternative Title
VLP Collection
Subject
Veterans--Florida
Description
In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s <a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a>. The program engaged a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in the Florida National Cemetery available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 gravesites at the Florida National Cemetery, where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Is Part Of
Veterans Legacy Program Collection, RICHES Program
Type
Collection
Digital Collection
<div class="element-text"><a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES MI</a></div>
<div class="element-text"><a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a></div>
Dublin Core
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Title
Draft Registration Card, 1917-1918
Alternative Title
World War I Draft Registration Card
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
World War, 1914-1918--African Americans
Description
The draft registration card for Buster Williams (1887-1945). The card contains the demographic information for the soldier including name, age, home address, date of birth, place of birth, race, citizenship, trade or occupation, number of dependents, whether tall, medium, or short, slender, medium, or stout, eye and hair color, whether bald, and disabilities. World War I draft registration cards were completed by approximately 24 million men living in the United States in 1917 and 1918.<br /><br />Buster Williams was born on December 16, 1887, in Barnwell, South Carolina. He worked as a farmer in Elkton, Florida, before being drafted into the United States Army in St. Augustine, Florida, on June 19, 1918. Williams served for about two months in the 135th Depot Brigade, a unit responsible for processing and training new recruits. From August 18, 1918, until the end of the war, he was part of Company B of the 536th Engineers Service Battalion. The 536th boarded their ship for France on August 26, 1918. The unit likely worked at the St. Aignan depot, where they would have been responsible for loading and unloading equipment and serving in primarily a support capacity. Once the war ended, Williams returned to Florida, where he married his wife, Ethel, and had three children. Williams worked as a laborer for a cemetery. He, his wife, and his son-in-law remained in the same house until Williams's death on December 28, 1945. He is buried in the St. Augustine National Cemetery.<br /><br />In 2017, the University of Central Florida was one of three universities selected to launch the National Cemetery Administration’s <a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a>. The program continues, engaging a team of scholars to make the life stories of veterans buried in national cemeteries available to the public. The project engages UCF students in research and writing and fosters collaboration between students, faculty and local Central Florida schools to produce interactive curriculum for k-12 students. The corresponding website exhibit uses RICHES Mosaic Interface to create a digital archive of related data. The public can use the project-developed augmented-reality app at more than 100 headstones at four national cemeteries, two in Florida (Florida National Cemetery and St. Augustine National Cemetery) and two in France (American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries at Aisne-Marne and the Meuse-Argonne), where they can access the UCF student-authored biographies of veterans.
Type
Text
Source
Digital reproduction of original draft registration card: Selective Service System, World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, M1509, 4,582 rolls.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/collections/show/210" target="_blank">Veterans Legacy Program Collection</a>
Coverage
St. Augustine, Florida
Creator
Leonard, C.W.
War Department, Office of Provost Marshal General, Selective Service System
Publisher
War Department, Office of Provost Marshal General, Selective Service System
Contributor
Williams, Buster
Date Created
ca. 1917-06-05
Format
image/jpg
Extent
176 KB
Medium
1 draft registration card
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C.W. Leonard and published by the War Department, Office of Provost Marshal General, Selective Service System.
Rights Holder
This resource is not subject to copyright in the United States and there are no copyright restrictions on reproduction, derivative works, distribution, performance, or display of the work. Anyone may, without restriction under U.S. copyright laws:<br /><br /> • reproduce the work in print or digital form<br /> • create derivative works<br /> • perform the work publicly<br /> • display the work<br /> • distribute copies or digitally transfer the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending.<br /><br /> This resource is provided here by <a href="https://riches.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES</a> for educational purposes only. For more information on copyright, please refer to <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#105">Section 5</a> of <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html">Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code</a>.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
O'Neil, Rhiannon
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
<a href="https://vlp.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">Veterans Legacy Program Project</a>
<a href="https://www.ancestry.com/" target="_blank">Ancestry.com</a>
Source Repository
<a href="https://www.archives.gov/" target="_blank">National Archives and Records Administration</a>
External Reference
Abney, Barb. "<a href="https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/" target="_blank">VA Selects UCF Historians to Archive Stories of Deceased Veterans Veterans</a>." <em>UCF Today</em>, March 13, 2017. Accessed August 9, 2017. https://today.ucf.edu/va-selects-ucf-historians-archive-stories-deceased-veterans/.
American Battle Monuments Commission. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/923834983/" target="_blank"><em>American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: A History, Guide, and Reference Book</em>. Washington, D.C., 1938.</a>
Army War College. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221518410" target="_blank"><em>Order of the Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War [Vol. 1-2], American Expeditionary Forces</em></a>. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1931-1949.
"<a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17264125" target="_blank">Buster Williams (1887-1945)</a>." Online database with images, <em>Find a Grave</em>. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17264125.
Florida Department of Military Affairs. "<a href="https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/222633" target="_blank">Buster Williams</a>." Online database with images, <em>FloridaMemory</em>. New Augustine, Florida. Box 16. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/222633.
Keene, Jennifer. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/837560460" target="_blank"><em>World War I: The American Soldier Experience</em></a>. Lincoln [u.a.]: University of Nebraska Press, 2011.
Office of the Quartermaster General. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=NARAWWITroops&amph=1483191">Buster Williams</a>." <em>U.S. Army Transport Service Passenger Lists, 1910-1939</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. Hoboken, New Jersey. Record Group Number 92, Roll or Box Number 507. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=NARAWWITroops&amph=1483191.
Office of the Quartermaster General. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=NARAWWITroops&amph=7414092">Buster Williams</a>." <em>U.S. Army Transport Service Passenger Lists, 1910-1939</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. St. Nazaire, France. Record Group 92, Roll or Box Number 140. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=NARAWWITroops&amph=7414092.
Selective Service System. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=WW1draft&amph=70930822">Busetr Williams</a>." <em>U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. NARA microfilm publication M1509, Roll 15569277. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=WW1draft&amph=70930822.
U.S. Census Bureau. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1920usfedcen&amph=4091921">Buster Williams</a>." <em> 1920 United States Federal Census</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. New Augustine, St. Johns, Florida. NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1920usfedcen&amph=4091921.
U.S. Census Bureau. "<a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1930usfedcen&amph=7865448">Buster Williams</a>." <em>1930 United States Federal Census</em>. Online database with images, <em>Ancestry.com</em>. St. Augustine, St. Johns, Florida. NARA microfilm publication T626, FHL microfilm 2340067. Accessed August 6, 2018. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&ampdb=1930usfedcen&amph=7865448.
United States Army. <a href="http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b219-i076" target="_blank"><em>536th Engineer Service Battalion Historial Technical Report, 1919</em></a>. W.E.B. Du Bois Papers. Accessed August 6, 2018. http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mmums312-b219-i076.
135th Depot Brigade
536th Engineers Service Battalion
African American soldiers
Buster Williams
conscription
draft
farmer
laborer
military history
military service
National Cemetery Administration
St. Augustine National Cemetery
veterans
Veterans Administration
Veterans Legacy Program
World War I
World War, 1914-1918
WWI