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                <text>VPI Class of 1916</text>
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            <text>John Sherman Wall and Delia Ann Rutledge</text>
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            <text>Roscoe Riner Wall</text>
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            <text>Brownie Virginia Delp</text>
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            <text>Earle Rutledge Wall Jr and Gretchen W. Wall</text>
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        <name>Graduated</name>
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            <text>Unknown, but did attend VPI during the 1912-1913 school year. </text>
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        <name>Unit</name>
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            <text>Company A, 318th Infantry</text>
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        <name>Military Events</name>
        <description>What significant military events occurred in this individual's life?</description>
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            <text>Did not serve overseas</text>
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        <name>1927 "Virginia Polytehnic Institute in the World War" booklet</name>
        <description>Did this individual appear in the 1927 booklet "Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the World War"? If so what page?</description>
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            <text>No</text>
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            <text>&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Virginia, U.S., Department of Military Affairs Records, 1876-1947 for Earle R Wall (see filed attached)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/items/62834e04-4638-49b8-ae9a-9baa914ad090" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"&gt;The Bugle, 1913 yearbook, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Blacksburg, Virginia), pg. 123. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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