Military and Veterans Bands

129th Field Artillery Band

Also documented as: 129th Field Artillery Headquarters Company and Band

Camp Doniphan / Fort Sill areaCamp Doniphan photographs dated October 13, 1917Field-artillery military band

Documented history with gaps

Master record246

129th Field Artillery Headquarters company and band — 1917-10-13 — Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma; do not identify unnamed people.

National Archives (62-301-01; NAID 336563229)

NAID 336563229; 62-301-01 · 800 × 622 JPEG

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Official item record

Documented overview

Three National Archives photographs dated October 13, 1917, identify the Headquarters Company and Band of the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma. They establish an exact unit, place, and date without implying a longer unverified Oklahoma history.

Documented history with gaps. The record supports a public history, with important limitations stated on the page.

History

Identity and chronology

Three National Archives photographs dated October 13, 1917 identify the Headquarters Company and Band of the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, at Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma.

Leadership

The NARA descriptions do not identify the bandmaster or individual soldiers.

Sponsorship and participation

This was a U.S. Army field-artillery unit band in World War I training at Camp Doniphan beside Fort Sill.

Military personnel.

Activity

The three independent views establish the unit band’s presence and formation during wartime mobilization.

Why this band matters

Multiple federal primary images document a named field-artillery band in Oklahoma wartime training history.

Evidence timeline

What the sources establish

October 13, 1917
Band photographed at Camp Doniphan
Three federal records identify the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, in wartime training.
Source 1

Cleared media

2 additional documented views

Captions, dates, identifiers, and required adjacent credits remain attached to every image.

Headquarters company and band — 1917-10-13 — Identify the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, at Camp Doniphan.

National Archives (62-301-02; NAID 336563231)

NAID 336563231; 62-301-02 · 800 × 630 JPEG

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Headquarters company and band, 129th F.A. — 1917-10-13 — Identify the 129th Field Artillery, 35th Division, at Camp Doniphan.

National Archives (62-301-03; NAID 336563233)

NAID 336563233; 62-301-03 · 800 × 634 JPEG

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Current research decision

What the wording does—and does not—claim

The packet does not extend the Oklahoma-based photograph evidence into an unverified post-deployment band chronology.

What remains unknown

Unit rosters and a bandmaster name would enrich the page, but the exact unit, place, and date are already secure.

Evidence

Sources

All three NARA records were checked on 2026-09-03; each displays unrestricted access and unrestricted use.

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