Collection Title: Jackson Purchase Oral History Project - World War I
Series Number: OH029
Interviewee: Old, Clell Cecil, 1894-
Interviewer: Peggy Pritchard
Date interviewed: September 10, 1985
Processed by: Sheree Wise
Date processed: September 10, 1985
Description: 2 sound discs (1 hour, 30 minutes)
Abstract: Clell Cecil Old, a World War I veteran, discusses his service in the United States Army, 6th Infantry Regiment, from 1917 and 1918. He was wounded in Argonne Forest in October of 1918. He received a Purple Heart for his wound in May of 1980.
Biographical / Historical note: Clell Cecil Old was born on June 27, 1894 in Nashville, Tennessee. He was drafted into the United States Army when he resided in Henry County, Tennessee. He trained at Camp Gordon in Atlanta, Georgia then at the Civil War battlefield at Chickamauga, Georgia. He left from New York to go to Brest, France on April 6, 1918. He traveled aboard the U.S.S Covington. Old was wounded in Argonne Forest and later received a Purple Heart.
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Subject Headings / Descriptors:
Nashville, Tennessee
Henry County, Tennessee
Camp Gordon, Atlanta
Chickamauga, Georgia
Brest, France
Argonne Forest, France
Research Notes: Index and abstract included with oral history.
