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129th Field Artillery Band

Three National Archives photographs identify the 129th Field Artillery Headquarters Company and Band in Oklahoma training-camp context; the item records are marked access and use unrestricted.

The documented story

The three independent views establish the unit band’s presence and formation during wartime mobilization.

People and leadership

The NARA descriptions do not identify the bandmaster or individual soldiers.

Community and organization

This was a U.S. Army field-artillery unit band in World War I training at Camp Doniphan beside Fort Sill.

Reading the evidence

The packet does not extend the Oklahoma-based photograph evidence into an unverified post-deployment band chronology.

Questions for further research

Unit rosters and a bandmaster name would enrich the page, but the exact unit, place, and date are already secure.

Sources

  1. catalog.archives.gov/id/336563229