Canteen, US Army, Complete, Cook Earl Everts, Battery A, 58th Artillery Regiment, AEF, 1918
Genuine WWI US Army M1910 canteen, manufactured by L.F.&C. and dated 1918, complete with its matching cup also manufactured by L.F.&C. and dated 1918. This set comes in its original khaki cover, dated 1917.
Homogeneous lot in quite good, used condition. The following mention has been stamped on the canteen itself: Everts, Earl G., Cook, France, Nov. 18.
Earl Gain Everts was born on June 10, 1897 in Traer, Iowa and joined the US Army in April 1917 (ASN 627927). He went on to serve as a Cook with Battery A, 58th Artillery Regiment (Coast Artillery) and departed for France aboard the USS Covington, which sailed from Hoboken, New Jersey on May 10, 1918. He came home aboard the USS Santa Barbara, which departed from Bordeaux, France on April 16, 1919. He passed away on March 16, 1956.
https://museum.dmna.ny.gov/unit-history/conflict/world-war-1-1914-1918/58th-artillery
https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~cacunithistories/military/58tharty.htm
https://fr.findagrave.com/memorial/180355764/earl-gain-everts
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