This a panoramic photograph shows the Kinsley State Guards, Company B, 23rd Battalion in Kinsley, Kansas. Company B performed guard duty twice, once at a fire and second time guarding government airplanes. It took a prominent place in a Red Cross fund raising picnic. The company on numerous occasions acted as an escort for funerals, departing soldiers, and homecoming celebrations. Members of the company are: Captain Henry J. Draut; First Lieutenant Archie R. DeMoss; Second Lieutenant John E. Stowell; First Sergeant Charles E. Burke; Quartermaster Sergeant Samuel T. Manuel; Sergeants: J. W. Rockenfellow, Daniel Weyrish, Jr., Howard J. Wilcox, and John T. Wilson; Corporals: Charlie L. Amrine, James A. Barlow, Wilber E. Broadie, Roy Hatfield, O. A. McKillip, Frank L. Willman, William Beezley, Ray A. Finch, and Ivan Reeder; Musician: John E. Cox; Privates: Oatha J. Atwood, William E. Barnett, Thomas E. Baugh, Beckwith, E. O., Ralph T. Burke, Robert Christopher, F. N. Cole, Ray E. Cole, Edwin Delander, Clarence Dixon, Earl G. Ehlers, Fred Fletcher, Ralph Ford, H. F. Frary, LeRoy Haney, Charlie Hatfield, G. D. Hoffman, Vernon Johnson, W. J. Joy, Harry Key, Clifford Kirkbride, Elmer Kirkbride, W. F. Lafferty, James C. Mack, Edward Matheny, Charles Matteson, Arthur H. Misner, William Montgomery, Charles L. Motz, Robert E. Neel, Roy North, George H. Ott, Edward G. Peterson, D. L. Pickard, Joe C. Pixley, Robert R. Raker, Kenneth Shaffer, William Sherman, Vane smith, Jesse Tate, Harley F. Thompson, William Troutman, Joe Vang, Arthur Welsh, Frank Weyrich, Abram Amrine, Clarence Carson, Morris Coover, Edward C. Grodley, Clifford A. Hampton, Gaylord Hargadine, Frank B. Hildenbrand, Harry G. Justus, M. D. Kirkbride, Bernard Lund, Archie R. Mekemson, R. F. Mitchell, Robert A. Mullikin, L. H. Nickolson, John Ott, Jim Panting, Fritz Riisoe, V. K. Sims, Hubert Warren, and Fred Wilson.
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