From collection General Photograph Collection
Wedding portraits of Sergeant Clayton Mansfield and Elsie Von Hoff Mansfield, photographed at Fort Riley, Kansas. Clayton Mansfield, a triathalon and sergeant at time of photographs, graduated from West Point and was killed in action immediately following decoration for valor in the Battle of the Bulge, WWII. He died on his only son's birthday. A - Clayton and Elsie Mansfield exiting chapel after wedding ceremony at Fort Riley. B - Clayton and Elsie Mansfield posing for photograph in grounds of chapel at Fort Riley. C-D - From left to right, Mrs. Mansfield (Clayton's mother), Clayton Mansfield, Elsie Von Hoff Mansfield, and Mrs. Van Hoff (Elsie's mother) posing for photograph in grounds of chapel at Fort Riley
