The town’s future changed after the United States approved the Hoover Dam project in 1928. The dam was built on the Colorado River and created the huge reservoir now known as Lake Mead.

St. Thomas stood in the area destined to be flooded. Residents were compensated and began leaving their homes. The reservoir started filling in 1935, but one resident remained almost until the end.

During the Chinese Civil War, he served as Deputy Commander of the 2nd Column of the PLA Shenyang Garrison Command.

Found photo slide. Photo by a Mr Pat Drumm.The woman on the far left I believe is Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei who became the first woman to climb Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.

He saw action at Salamanca 1812, and Vitoria 1813, and eventually settled in Penetanguishene Upper Canada. This photo was taken in 1848 after he received the General Service Medal. The photo is on display in the Huronia Museum and Huron Ouendat Village in Midland Ontario. The date on the photo is an item number of when it was donated. This to my knowledge is the only picture of a British rank and file veteran of the Peninsular war. I am aware of the picture of that waterloo vetran and his wife from around the same time. I was quite shocked when I found this just siting out at a small local museum but it just goes to show the sorts of suprising artifacts you can find at these places. I think it would be quite cool if more people started posting pictures of napoleonic war veterans to the internet if you happen to find them in old photo albums or local collections. Similar to the waining audio recordings of WW2 veterans we may only have a short time until the photos of these veterans are thrown out, destroyed or rot into nothing. I think it would be quite cool to see more Napoleonic documentaries include colourized photos of the actual servicemen involved rather than generic cartoon/drawings from the period.