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Author:

Woodhouse, Keith Wallace, 1909-1974, author.

Title:

Wartime diaries and letters of Colonel Keith Wallace Woodhouse, 1942-1945 : with annex / [introduction, notes, and appendix by Thomas Edwin Woodhouse.]

Publisher:

publisher not identified,

Copyright Date:

2012 or 2013?

Description:

129 pages, bound, 2 leaves, unbound : photographs (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Subject:

Woodhouse, Keith Wallace,--1909-1974,--Diaries.
Woodhouse, Keith Wallace,--1909-1974,--Correspondence.
World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives.
Ireland--Description and travel.
United States.--Army--Diaries.
United States.--Army--Biography.
Soldiers--United States--Diaries.
Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
Soldiers--Independence--Independence--Diaries.
Soldiers--Independence--Independence--Correspondence.
Independence (Iowa)--Biography.
Grant Wood School (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)--History.

Other Authors:

Woodhouse, Thomas Edwin, 1940-, contributor.
Gilcher, Kay Woodhouse, contributor.
Woodhouse, Elinor Julia Cherny, 1911-1991.
Behrens, Roy R., 1946- donor.

Notes:

No restrictions on access.

Summary:

Colonel Keith Wallace Woodhouse served in the European theatre and was posted in Ireland during World War II. This self-published book contains diary entries as well as letters and telegraphs written to his wife Elinor in Independence, Iowa, between 1942-1945. Appended at the end is a description and photos of a trip made to Ireland in 2012 by two of Colonel Woodhouse's children, Thomas Woodhouse and Kay Gilcher, and their spouses.
The book is accompanied by a letter from the donor, Roy R. Behrens, providing information about Thomas Edwin Woodhouse. A photocopy from the April 8, 1951, Cedar Rapids Gazette describes how Woodhouse, at age 11, won a contest to select the name of a Cedar Rapids elementary school: Grant Wood School.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)929084622

Locations:

F3OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Iowa City)