History of Camden County in the Great War, 1917-1918 . ©HAPRSS&EWWG, HON. WOODROW WILSONPresident of the United States FOREWORD RECORDS and facts published in this history weregathered from authoritative sources. When thePublicity and Historical Committee was authorized by theVictory Jubilee and Memorial Committee to compile thishistory the Government was asked for an official list of theheroic dead of Camden county. The War Departmentreplied that it was a physicial impossibility for theirbureaus to furnish such information because of the greatnumber of men in service of the nation. The member

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History of Camden County in the Great War, 1917-1918 . ©HAPRSS&EWWG, HON. WOODROW WILSONPresident of the United States FOREWORD RECORDS and facts published in this history weregathered from authoritative sources. When thePublicity and Historical Committee was authorized by theVictory Jubilee and Memorial Committee to compile thishistory the Government was asked for an official list of theheroic dead of Camden county. The War Departmentreplied that it was a physicial impossibility for theirbureaus to furnish such information because of the greatnumber of men in service of the nation. The membersof the committee, with the aid of che police, secured theinformation for their records by visiting the homes ofthose who died in the war and having their relatives fillout questionnaires printed by the Victory Jubilee andMemorial Committee. The members of the Publicity and Historical Com-mittee were newspapermen of the city and county andthe facts relative to Camden countys part in the warwere gathered from accounts written by them during thewahistoryofcamdenc00camd

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