Comments on: Encampments http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy 1916-1919 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: worldwar1letters http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/the-adventure-unfolds/watchful-waiting-1917/training-encampments/#comment-294 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:08:20 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?page_id=1350#comment-294 Hi Tim:
This sounds like a typical panoramic photo of the period and was probably taken in the area of greater Newton outside of Boston. Today there is a large mass transit station called Riverside in that area. N.G.S.M. would refer to the National Guard, State of Massachusetts which was the designation between 1903 and 1917. See the Page entitled “8th Mass. Infantry” for more on the history of the Massachusetts Militia and National Guard.

Regards,
REL

]]> By: Tim Quigley http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/the-adventure-unfolds/watchful-waiting-1917/training-encampments/#comment-293 Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:30:21 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?page_id=1350#comment-293 Have a photo ~ 32″ wide x 6″ high of citizens viewing an encampment. Title: N.G.S.M. Riverside, Aug. 1914
in bottom right corner; photo. L Shapiro, 110 Tremont Street, Boston, Mass.
any info? is this the Riverside area of Boston?
Thanks.

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