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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m...
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Cemetery at Dead Man's Hill

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Hundreds of graves for fallen soldiers at Dead Man's Hill. Captioned: "Cemetery at foot of Mort Homme (Dead Man's Hill). Notice the 'communication trenches...
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Grave of a German Soldier

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: A cross marking the grave of a German soldier. Other graves are in the background. Captioned: "A 'Fritz'."
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They Give Their Lives

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts several cross-shaped gravestones at the top of a hill. Twisted barbed wire fencing appears behind them. Poster text reads: They give their l...
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds...

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