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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Biographical / Historical
Preferred Citation
Content Description
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Contributing Institution:
Center for American War Letters Archives
Title: Laurence D. Perrine Second World War correspondence scrapbooks
Creator:
Perrine, Laurence, Master Sergeant, PhD, 1915-1995
source:
Perrine, Douglas
Identifier/Call Number: 2020.102.w.r
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date (inclusive): 1945 February 2 - 1945 December 3
Abstract: This collection contains two scrapbooks compiled by MSgt. Laurence D. Perrine, USA relating to his service during the Second
World War.
Included are correspondence, photographs and collected ephemera.
Language of Material:
English
.
Container: WWII 156
Container: 1
Container: 1
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Douglas Perrine.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged sequentially;
- Series 1, Scrapbook volume 27
- Series 2, Scrapbook volume 28
Biographical / Historical
Master Sergeant Laurence D. Perrine, United States Army (10/13/1915 - 4/27/1995) was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Mary
D. and Ren B. Perrine, both American citizens. After returning to the US and his father's passing in 1938, he lived with his
siblings Eugene, Ruth and Paul, as well as his aunt and uncle Lenora and John Dollins. He attended and worked at Yale University
as a graduate student when he registered for the draft in October 1940 and worked as a substitute teacher in Lyndhurst, Ohio
when he enlisted on June 23, 1942 at Camp Perry in Lacarne, Ohio. After training and beginning his service with a medical
unit, he departed for France as a Psychiatric Assistant with the 103rd Infantry Division on October 6, 1944 and arrived on
October 20 at Le Havre.
While in France, he wrote home to his sister Ruth and his mother, detailing the sights and the horrors of war, including casualties
and trauma to soldiers as well as the destruction seen in the various towns and cities he passed. He continued to serve in
various locations throughout Europe, even attending school at Shrivenham American University in Shrivenham, Berkshire, England
until he left on December 14, 1945, arriving on December 24 and separating on December 28.
After the war, Perrine went on to have a very successful career as an English professor at Southern Methodist University.
(https://blog.smu.edu/smumagazine/2007/12/3-3-million-gift-extends-professors-legacy/)
Laurence Perrine, PhD passed away on April 27, 1995.
Preferred Citation
[Item title / description; Box "n" / Folder "n"], Laurence D. Perrine Second World War correspondence scrapbooks (2020.102.w.r),
Center for American War Letters Archives, Chapman University, CA.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Content Description
This collection contains two scrapbooks compiled by MSgt. Laurence Dollins Perrine, USA relating to his service during the
Second World War. Included are sixteen typed correspondence, 157 pictures (photographs, postcards, drawings and magazine clippings)
of people, landscapes and landmarks, as well as collected ephemera.
Conditions Governing Use
There are no restrictions on the use of this material except where previously copyrighted material is concerned. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to obtain all permissions.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
World War (1939-1945)
World War (1939-1945) -- Casualties
World War (1939-1945) -- England
World War (1939-1945) -- Photography
World War (1939-1945) -- Germany
World War (1939-1945) -- Concentration camps -- Germany
World War (1939-1945) -- Concentration camps
World War (1939-1945) -- Germany -- Refugees
Austria -- Pictorial works
World War (1939-1945) -- Battlefields -- France
World War (1939-1945) -- France
Correspondence -- World War, 1939-1945
War -- Pictorial works
Perrine, Douglas