Archive Record
Metadata
Collection |
Colonel Roger Fitch Collection |
Object ID |
MC-011.02 |
Accession Number |
2016.006a |
Title |
Colonel Roger Fitch Collection |
Year Range from |
1877 |
Year Range to |
1955 |
Creator |
Roger Fitch |
Scope & Content |
The collection contains the Colonel Roger Fitch, U.S. Army, papers and focuses on Fitch's military career from 1898-1943. Collection consists of 3 boxes. Box 1 contains a memorandum for Colonel Fitch from 1928, "Defense of the Pacific Coast" essay and article, a history of Fort Ord, photographs regarding the conditions of the Presidio of Monterey, program for the annual football game against the Presidio and the American Legion, speeches, letters, and invitations, as well as a booklet about the Presidio of Monterey, overseas observations conducted by Fitch in the WWI era, a collection of letters addressed to the President regarding Fitch's request for promotion to 2nd lieutenant in 1898/1899, a lecture booklet, farewell addresses from particular generals, and papers found in a scrapbook for Colonel Fitch. Box 2 contains the colonel's past awards, original correspondences, personnel records of the Presidio of Monterey and the Gigling Reservation from 1928-1930, misc. files, a French book about the French Army at Verdun during the First World War, Fort Ord Panorama, San Francisco Examiner and Yank magazine clippings, correspondence about cavalry talks, misc. speeches, a picture of Fitch in uniform, Stewart E. White pictures, and a summary of cavalry employment circa 1914. Box 3 contains original correspondences by Fitch, photos, memo card on the National Defense Act, a journal or possible scrapbook, personal speeches, extracts from Moltke's Correspondence (pertaining to War 1870-71), a booklet on Estimating Tactical Situations, a Study in Staff Supply, a history of the Army Service Schools, and various newspaper articles and copies of letters. |
People |
Roger Stanley Fitch Theodore Roosevelt Stewart E. White |
Search Terms |
Stewart E. White Roger Stanley Fitch Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider WWI Fort Ord Presidio of Monterey Football 11th Cavalary Roger Fitch 7th Infantry Occupation of Japan China India Burma Campaign CBI Campaign China-India-Burma Campaign |
Containers |
Personal Records of POM and Gigling Reservation Misc. Files Misc. Files Misc. Files Misc. Files La Defense de Verdun Fort Ord Panorama-1941, Monterey Herald-1930 Retirement Letters Letters to Colonel Fitch Information and Retirement Remarks about Fitch Continued Letters and Correspondences by Fitch Correspondences about/involving Colonel Fitch Continued Correspondences Cavalry Talks, Duties of the Cavalry Photograph of Colonel Fitch (back left), History of Monterey Misc. Speeches Stewart E. White Pictures Summary of Cavalry Employment in the World War San Francisco Examiner, 1945 [Newpaper] Yank, 1944 [Magazine] |