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Ray H. Hurlbutt, Beirne H. Coffman, Robert Elwood Sinclair, William N. Ferris, Charles W. Haynes, and Ralph Noble are all mentioned by name in this newspaper clipping discussing a memorial service held at Beecher Chapel in Galesburg, Illinois to…

Information about and pictures of the Knox-affiliated men who gave their lives during World War I is provided in the 1919 issue of 'The Gale.'

Two soldiers pose in a trench.

Four soldiers lean out the windows of a train.

Three men stand next to a horse and cart.

Men gather in the mess hall built near Willard Field on the Knox College campus.

A military car sits vacant near a road.

The yearbook section directly pertaining to military affairs concludes with a page of pictures of Knox students hard at work training themselves for military service.

Private Venn's military ineptness is amusingly recounted.

Unlike in the previous yearbook, Knox students in the military received their own section in the 1919 yearbook (published in 1918).

This beautifully evocative illustration in the Knox College yearbook for 1920 (produced in 1919) created by artist Ildra Jessup is captioned, "For Democracy."

A chain of vehicles and soldiers makes its way down the road.

The back of this tag states, "This is to certify that Geo. S. Supinon [?] has purchased at least one $5.00 War Savings Stamp during the dates of June 20th and 28th inclusive, and is entitled to wear this tag National War Savings Day, June 28th. WAR…

A bespectacled naval officer wears a life jacket aboard ship.

Knox alumnus Nelson Dean Jay writes after the war to McClelland, "...I consider it a privilege to have been in France, which was the centre of both the War activities and the reconstruction period that followed."