Gulf Coast Stamp Club
Meeting Dates: First Saturday of each month
General Club Meeting Times: 2:00 PM Meeting Location(s): St. Martin Library, 15004 LeMoyne Blvd., St. Martin, Mississippi Officers: President: Rob O'Dell Vice President: Al Allegue Treasurer: Mike Kayes Secretary: Bob Marousky Contact: gulfcoaststampclub@gmail.com Address: Gulf Coast Stamp Club, P.O. Box 3906, Gulfport, MS, 39505 Club Website: www.gulfcoaststampclub.org Club History: Membership is open to anyone interested in any aspect of stamp collecting. The club is Local Chapter #932 of the American Philatelic Society. We are a growing and progressive club with collectors of varying interests. Our membership includes beginners to advanced specialists. Membership fees are $10.00 per year for individuals and families. A junior membership is available free to those between the ages of ten and eighteen. The monthly meeting consists of members and visitors enjoying a short visit with each other beginning around 2 pm. At this time the Club makes available an American Philatelic Society sales circuit for members and visitors to inspect and purchase items. Members frequently bring material for trade to the meetings. This is followed by a short business meeting. The Gulf Coast Stamp Club has sponsored an annual stamp show called GULFPEX since its inception in 1973. Experienced dealers from across the south ..... special Penny Black drawing ..... U.S. Postal services available ..... Boy Scout workshop ..... Beginner workshop ..... Stamps, albums, postcards, first day covers, other philately related products for sale ..... free program souvenir ..... collections reviewed by experts ..... thousands of stamps on display ..... free stamps for kids ..... freebie table ..... free parking and admission ..... lots of family activities ..... Exhibitions from local members ..... Special tables honoring our local/national women's organizations ..... commemorative caches created by our local members |
Our December General Club meeting is at 2:00 pm Saturday, December 1 at the St. Martin Library. We would like to see everybody there.
Our web theme for November will be commemorating the ending of World War 1.
November begins our season of holidays. In addition to the holidays we celebrate the ending of World War 1 on November 11, 1918. Included on our page this month is a historical review of this event along with related stamps. In addition we observe Veteran's Day and Thanksgiving. Don't forget to set your clocks for the change in Daylight Savings time. Please visit the Gulf Coast Stamp Club web site.
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This Sunday will be November 11. It is a day to remember our veterans. They came from all walks of life, from all over our great nation, from high schools and boardrooms. While they are a most diverse group of citizens they had one goal in mind...to protect and defend the United States of America from those who wish to destroy our republic. They have done their job well. Thank you.
USPS stamp honoring those who fought in World War 1, issued Friday, July 27, 2018.
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Stamps from around the world commemorating the beginning and ending of the Great War
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USPS stamp Victory of the Allies in World War 1, issued March 3, 1919.
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100th Anniversary of Armistice Day
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, The Great War ends.
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, The Great War ends.
PUBLIC LAW 112-272 JAN. 14, 2013, WORLD WAR I CENTENNIAL COMMISSION ACT, 126 STAT. 2448
On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg in Sarajevo, leading to a diplomatic crisis. Central Europe went bonkers!!
On 28 June 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb Yugoslav nationalist, assassinated the Austro-Hungarian heir Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg in Sarajevo, leading to a diplomatic crisis. Central Europe went bonkers!!
In the night of August 3–4 German forces invaded Belgium. Thereupon, Great Britain, which had no concern with Serbia and no express obligation to fight either for Russia or for France but was expressly committed to defend Belgium, on August 4 declared war against Germany. Austria-Hungary declared war against Russia on August 5; Serbia against Germany on August 6; Montenegro against Austria-Hungary on August 7 and against Germany on August 12; France and Great Britain against Austria-Hungary on August 10 and on August 12, respectively; Japan against Germany on August 23; Austria-Hungary against Japan on August 25 and against Belgium on August 28.
It has been called THE GREAT WAR and THE WAR TO END ALL WARS. We know it as WORLD WAR I. It began in 1914 and ended with an armistice at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The cost…included 52,947 dead and 202,628 wounded Americans. After war was declared on 6 April 1917 the U.S. began preparations to enter the morass of European trench warfare.
In June 1917, transport ships began ferrying U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Force to France. However, the “Doughboys,” as the British referred to the green American troops, were said to be untrained and ill-equipped, untested for the rigors of fighting along the Western Front.
Nevertheless, the war-weary Allied armies enthusiastically welcomed the fresh American troops. In 1918, the Yanks won a small but important victory at Cantigny, stopped the German attack toward Paris at Belleau Wood and along the Marne, played the major role in turning the tide of the war at Soissons, eliminated the German salient at St Mihiel that had existed for four years, smashed the Hindenburg Line at Blanc Mont and again in the Meuse-Argonne, driving the Germans back across the Meuse River to the north and east by the time the Armistice was signed. The inexperienced and hastily trained Americans took severe casualties but were ultimately victorious in every major battle they fought.
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
The political disruption surrounding World War I also contributed to the fall of four venerable imperial dynasties—Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and Turkey.
World War I brought about massive social upheaval, as millions of women entered the workforce to support men who went to war, and to replace those who never came back. The first global war also helped to spread one of the world’s deadliest global pandemics, the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 20 to 50 million people.
World War I has also been referred to as “the first modern war.” Many of the technologies we now associate with military conflict—machine guns, tanks, aerial combat and radio communications—were introduced on a massive scale during World War I.
The severe effects that chemical weapons such as mustard gas and phosgene had on soldiers and civilians during World War I galvanized public and military attitudes against their continued use. The Geneva Convention agreements, signed in 1925, restricted the use of chemical and biological agents in warfare, and remains in effect today.
https://www.miltours.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=99
https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
It has been called THE GREAT WAR and THE WAR TO END ALL WARS. We know it as WORLD WAR I. It began in 1914 and ended with an armistice at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. The cost…included 52,947 dead and 202,628 wounded Americans. After war was declared on 6 April 1917 the U.S. began preparations to enter the morass of European trench warfare.
In June 1917, transport ships began ferrying U.S. troops of the American Expeditionary Force to France. However, the “Doughboys,” as the British referred to the green American troops, were said to be untrained and ill-equipped, untested for the rigors of fighting along the Western Front.
Nevertheless, the war-weary Allied armies enthusiastically welcomed the fresh American troops. In 1918, the Yanks won a small but important victory at Cantigny, stopped the German attack toward Paris at Belleau Wood and along the Marne, played the major role in turning the tide of the war at Soissons, eliminated the German salient at St Mihiel that had existed for four years, smashed the Hindenburg Line at Blanc Mont and again in the Meuse-Argonne, driving the Germans back across the Meuse River to the north and east by the time the Armistice was signed. The inexperienced and hastily trained Americans took severe casualties but were ultimately victorious in every major battle they fought.
At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ends. At 5 a.m. that morning, Germany, bereft of manpower and supplies and faced with imminent invasion, signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiégne, France. The First World War left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded, with Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France, and Great Britain each losing nearly a million or more lives. In addition, at least five million civilians died from disease, starvation, or exposure.
The political disruption surrounding World War I also contributed to the fall of four venerable imperial dynasties—Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia and Turkey.
World War I brought about massive social upheaval, as millions of women entered the workforce to support men who went to war, and to replace those who never came back. The first global war also helped to spread one of the world’s deadliest global pandemics, the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 20 to 50 million people.
World War I has also been referred to as “the first modern war.” Many of the technologies we now associate with military conflict—machine guns, tanks, aerial combat and radio communications—were introduced on a massive scale during World War I.
The severe effects that chemical weapons such as mustard gas and phosgene had on soldiers and civilians during World War I galvanized public and military attitudes against their continued use. The Geneva Convention agreements, signed in 1925, restricted the use of chemical and biological agents in warfare, and remains in effect today.
https://www.miltours.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=99
https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-I
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/world-war-i-history
World War 1 postcards from the collection of Bob Marousky
Veteran's Day 2018
The military men and women who serve and protect the U.S. come from all walks of life; they are parents, children, grandparents, friends, neighbors and coworkers, and are an important part of their communities. Here are some facts about the veteran population of the United States:
- 16.1 million living veterans served during at least one war.
- 5.2 million veterans served in peacetime.
- 2 million veterans are women.
- 7 million veterans served during the Vietnam War.
- 5.5 million veterans served during the Persian Gulf War.
- Of the 16 million Americans who served during World War II, about 558,000 are still alive.
- 2 million veterans served during the Korean War.
- 6 million veterans served in peacetime.
- As of 2014, 2.9 million veterans received compensation for service-connected disabilities.
- As of 2014, 3 states have more than 1 million veterans among their population: California (1.8 million), Florida (1.6 million) and Texas (1.7 million).
- The VA health care system had 54 hospitals in 1930, since then it has expanded to include 171 medical centers; more than 350 outpatient, community, and outreach clinics; 126 nursing home care units; and 35 live-in care facilities for injured or disabled vets.