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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ray Stanford Williams Papers #5615, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Stan Williams of Raleigh, N.C., May 2015 (Acc. 102139).

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Processed: May 2019

Encoded by: Amanda Loeb, July 2015

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• Fort Bragg (N.C.)
• Gastonia (N.C.)
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States. Army--History--World War, 1939-1945.
• Williams, Ray Stanford, 1921-2003.
• World War, 1939-1945--Australia.
• World War, 1939-1945--North Carolina.

Ray Stanford Williams (1921-2003), of Gastonia, N.C., was a Private First Class in the United States Army during the Second World War, first stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C., and later in Australia. He also worked for the federal government in the United States Postal Service, and received several awards for his efficiency. He was the second youngest of eight children. He was married to Myrtle Geneva Hopper Williams, a housewife.

The collection of Private First Class Ray Stanford Williams (1921-2003) of Gastonia, N.C., contains correspondence and military ephemera from the Second World War. Letters and postcards to family members detail Williams' military life abroad. Also included are newspaper clippings, photographs, a breast pocket bible, and movement orders from 1942.