Victor C. Faure Papers
1918-1919
Manuscript Collection #1201- Creator(s)
- Faure, Victor C.
- Physical description
- 0.78 Cubic Feet, 1 archival box, 5 folders, Collection includes a scrapbook containing 42 letters and postcards written by U.S. Army Pvt. Victor C. Faure to his parents describing his World War I Army service at Fort Mills on Long Island, New York, and in France with the First Army as part of the American Expeditionary Force. Letters dated from May 18, 1918 to 27 March, 1919, which contain descriptions of Army life, the devastation in France from German artillery shelling, the First Army's participation in the Battle of Argonne Forest, the end of the war and delays getting back home.
- Preferred Citation
- Victor C. Faure Papers (#1201), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
- Repository
- ECU Manuscript Collection
- Access
- Access to audiovisual and digital media is restricted. Please contact Special Collections for more information. Use photocopies of letters located in folders a - e.
Letters written by Victor C. Faure to his parents dated from May 18, 1918 to 27 March, 1919. Describe movement from California to Fort Mills on Long Island, to France, and delays in returning home after the war.
Biographical/historical information
Victor C. Faure, of San Francisco, CA, was the son of Henry E. Faure and his wife Inge Peterson Faure. He served with the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. In later years he, like his parents before him, was very involved in the Native Sons of the Golden West.
Scope and arrangement
Collection includes a scrapbook containing 42 letters and postcards, dated from May 18, 1918 to 27 March, 1919, written by U.S. Army Pvt. Victor C. Faure to his parents, Henry E. Faure and Inge Peterson Faure, in San Francisco, California, describing his World War I Army service. Letters contain discriptions from his travel to and time at Fort Mills on Long Island, New York and his time in France with the First Army as part of the American Expeditionary Force. He provides descriptions of Army life, the devastation in France from German artillery shelling, the First Army's participation in the Battle of Argonne Forest, the end of the war and delays getting back home. Scrapbook order and page numberes are in revese order, newest to oldest, pg 42 to pg 1. Scrapbook was dismantled and copies made for researcher use.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased with state funds from Carmen D. Valentino.
Processing information
Processed by Hans Sprenkle, August 2012.
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Key terms
Personal Names
Faure, Henry E.--CorrespondenceFaure, Inge Peterson--Correspondence
Faure, Victor C.
Corporate Names
United States. Army--Military lifeTopical
Argonne, Battle of the, France, 1918World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Western Front
World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American