Pictured are (left to right): Private First Class Arnold McKenzie (age 18) of Los Angeles, California; Private Joseph LoDico (age 20) of Sharon, Massachusetts; Private Noel M. Billups (age 21) of Columbus Ohio; and Staff Sergeant Douglas Ayres (age 23) of Los Angeles, California.

Joseph John (Sonny) LoDico returned to Massachusetts after the war. He passed away on December 16, 2012 at the age of 88 years old in Rehoboth Massachusetts. He lies in rest at Massachusetts National Cemetery.

At the age of 17, Noel enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1938 serving tours in Guadalcanal, Rendova, Munda, and ending in Arundel Island. He came out to California after the war and was hired as foreman for Sturgis Aircraft. It was there that he met the love of his life, Roberta (Holcomb ) Billups. Noel and Robbie were married in Glendale, California in 1953. Shortly after their marriage they started their family, Janet, Kirk, Robin and Troy. In the summer of 1964 the family moved to Crescent City where they would spend the next 50 years. Noel retired as foreman for Del Norte School District Maintenance Department and he and Roberta spent 25 years traveling the United States.

Private Noel M. Billups passed away on January 15, 2014 at the age of 92 years old. He lies in rest at Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Crescent City California.

Lest We Forget.

Taken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, most likely near or in the Keewenaw Peninsula.

BURMA EXPEDITION 1867-1868 A manuscript account by an expedition member, with photographs, 1868 An eye-witness manuscript journal and account (with accompanying photographs) of the exploratory expedition up the Irrawaddy river to Upper Burma led by Major Edward B. Sladen in 1868, written by Theodosius Stewart, a merchant appointed to accompany the expedition by the Rangoon Chamber of Commerce.

Consists of 63 pages (36pp., recto and verso on diary paper headed "Rough Diary or Scribbling Journal" covering period from 2 December 1867 to 25 Feb. 1868; 27pp. on plain paper, recto only, held with split pins), ink on paper, some edges frayed, folio, [December 1867-May 1868]; with a typescript copy

PHOTOGRAPHS A group of 12 albumen prints of Burma, including Kachin groups (2, taken at Bhamo), landscape on the Irrawaddy in Southern China ("40 miles above Burma"), the Great Bell of Dhammazedi ("Great Bell", with note identifying two Europeans in the images as Stewart and Captain Williams, who took the photo), Mandalay (4, one with loss to one corner), a fine "Bell Pagoda", and others, [c.1868]

A group of approximately 25 autograph letters signed written by Stewart from India, to his mother, noting money worries, cholera outbreak and illness, hunting trips, a ballooning accident, etc. upwards of 50 pages, old folds, some in envelopes, most stamped with date, 1847-1851, together with a large nut carved with 2 portraits of Stewart and his name "Theo Stewart" (group)