Photo USMC-GN-2.1.
The Jefe Director of the Guardia
Nacional and his Staff, ca. 1
Jan. 1928.
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Caption reads:
"The Jefe Director of the
Guardia Nacional and his Staff (Taken
about 1 Jan. 1928).
1. 2nd
Lt. Manuel Salguerro, aide.
2. Colonel Samuel M. Harrington, Chief
of Staff.
3. Major Leon L. Dye, Paymaster.
4. Brig. Gen. Elias R. Beadle, Jefe
Director.
5. Major John L. Parker, Personnel
Officer.
6. Colonel Jesse B. Helm, Medical
Director.
7. Major Alton A. Gladden, Commandant,
National Penitentiary.
8. Colonel Robert W. Vorth,
Quartermaster.
9. Major Victor F. Bleasedale, Ordnance
Officer and Intelligence Officer."
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Photo USMC-GN-2.4.
Guardia Nacional mutineers from
Telpaneca mutiny (6 & 21 October
1929) captured in Honduras.
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Caption reads:
"Telpaneca Mutineers under arrest in
Honduras, from Col. Farquharson thru
Brigade." On the Telpaneca
mutinies, see
TOP 100 PAGE 55.
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Photo USMC-GN-2.5.
Guardia in training exercises,
probably Matagalpa or Jinotega,
ca. 1928.
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No Caption, no date.
Guardia in training exercises in a
provincial town that had electricity,
probably Matagalpa or Jinotega.
Housed next to photos of
Matagalpa & Jinotega (mountaintop
panoramas of Matagalpa, street scenes in
both towns, the Matagalpa-Jinotega road:
see
PHOTO-DOCS USNA1 PAGE 3).
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Photo USMC-GN-2.6.
Juan Torres, Guardia Nacional
No. 588, March 7, 1928.
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Written on back: "Juan
Torres, Guardia Nacional No. 588, 7
March 1928"
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Photo USMC-GN-2.7.
Five Guardia Nacional troops
posed with heads of three rebels
killed & decapitated by GN Cabo
(Corporal) Guillén, 24 June
1930.
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Caption reads:
"Writing on reverse of the above
photograph: "Given to me in
Jinotega. The written note in the
corner was there when the picture was
given to me. Signed J. C. S.
(Major J. [Julian] C. Smith, USMC,
Colonel, GN). Meza - Herrera and
Mendoza bandits, killed by Guillen 24
June 1930."
Writing on photograph itself:
"3 Víctimas de los bandoleros,
Matagalpa, Agosto 1930"
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Photo USMC-GN-2.8.
Heads of three rebels killed &
decapitated by Guardia Nacional
Cabo (Corporal) Guillén, 24 June
1930.
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Caption reads: "Copy
of writing on reverse of the above
photograph: La FUNDADORA.
—AN MENDOZA. Killed in
contact by guardia commanded by Cabo
(corporal) Guillen, 24 June 1930, at La
Montaña —e los Gilgueros. PIO —
MEZA — Ocotal. FRANCISCO HERRERA —
La Fundadora JUAN MENDOZA."
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