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Photo USMC-GN-2.1.   The Jefe Director of the Guardia Nacional and his Staff, ca. 1 Jan. 1928.


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."


Photo USMC-GN-2.2.   La Guardia Nacional de Nicaragua en Rivas, sin fecha.  Foto por Salvatierra.

No caption.  Three details (l. to r.) presented below.








Photo USMC-GN-2.3.   A Guardia Baseball Team, no date.

No caption or date.  Two different copies filed away in the archives & both presented here.



 

Photo USMC-GN-2.4.   Guardia Nacional mutineers from Telpaneca mutiny (6 & 21 October 1929) captured in Honduras.

Caption reads:  "Telpaneca Mutineers under arrest in Honduras, from Col. Farquharson thru Brigade."  On the Telpaneca mutinies, see TOP 100 PAGE 55.



 

Photo USMC-GN-2.5.   Guardia in training exercises, probably Matagalpa or Jinotega, ca. 1928.

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).



Photo USMC-GN-2.6.   Juan Torres, Guardia Nacional No. 588, March 7, 1928. 


Written on back:  "Juan Torres, Guardia Nacional No. 588, 7 March 1928"


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.


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"


Photo USMC-GN-2.8.   Heads of three rebels killed & decapitated by Guardia Nacional Cabo (Corporal) Guillén, 24 June 1930.


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."


Photo USMC-GN-2.9.  



 

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