Source: The Observer, Nov. 4, 2022
Camp Grant
Plague Toll Continues Heavy Within City October 11, 1918
Source: Rockford Morning Star October 11, 1918
Camp Epidemic Reaches Climax
Source: October 6, 1918 p.3
Sergeant Joseph F. Bold 1918 photograph
Photograph of Sergeant Joseph F. Bold Rockford Public Library Local History Archives Military Collection
Diary of Sergeant Joseph F Bold
Sgt. J.F. Bold (Ambulance Company 344 -311th Sanitation Train), a Rockford resident, details his activities in WWI in an unusual 55 page typed diary, from august 24,1918 (Camp Grant IL) to his discharge on January 31, 1919.
Rockford Public Library Local History Archives – Military Collection
Education, Business and Social Interests Important to First African-Americans
Henry E Crow Obituary- 1920-2016
Source: Rockford Register Star 12/20/2016
Camp Grant, WWI
Trained a Quarter Million Men in 28 months in World War 1
Source: Nuggets of History, Vol. XVII No 3 Summer 1980 p 5 “A Brief Municipal History of Rockford”
1942 Camp Grant Servicemen’s Telephone Center – postcard
Source: www.ebay.com sale item, 2018
Camp Grant – 1941 City Directory
Source: 1941 Polk’s Rockford City Directory