I have spent a lot of time at Ft. Clark researching. It's really a sad deal that the government sold the fort and its grounds to the public. Virtually nothing has been done to preserve much. The guardhouse is where the little museum is. Everything in the museum has come from families of men stationed there or from past troopers that were still alive to leave things to them.
One barrack still remains but is a hotel for the Ft. Clark springs. Some of the officers houses remain but are privately owned. The old parade ground is a golf course.
Very sad the fort was not saved.
Every year the entire regiment had a group picture taken. It was done on the parade grounds. It was a large panoramic picture about 12" tall and about 2.5 -3ft long.
All Troopers were mounted and grouped by troop.
They gave each trooper 2 copies of those pictures…..each year. See if you can find any of those from your grandfather.
Also.., upon discharge…, every trooper received a leather bound picture album of various pictures of troopers and horses, Ft. Clark etc etc. Your grandfather should have received one. See if you can locate that.
Please let me know if you by chance find any of that. It would help greatly in identifying other troopers etc.
My dad was discharged from the 5th Cav in 1941. But he reenlisted when Pearl Harbor was bombed in the Army Air Corp and stayed in for the duration until 1945. He was a crew chief and was in Guam and New Guinea.
He was an orphan and had no family and he lost a lot of his 5th Cav pictures. I have spent years contacting 5th Cav descendants and trying to find out more about my dad in the Cav.
He passed unexpectedly in 1994 at 72.
Anything you might come across would be interesting.
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