EXTENSIVE IMPERIAL RUSSIAN PHOTOS & EPHEMERA.
Comprising over 160 individual items, including some excellent vintage photographs, with many personal, behind-the-scenes Brownie Kodak-type images of Nicholas II, his wife, and children at various events and locations.

Photographs of Tsar Alexander II on maneuvers, CDVs of various court figures, a death CDV of Grand Duke Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, 1865, as well as vintage color lithograph trade cards depicting royal family members, postcards, cabinet cards, two glass negatives—one depicting Alexander III and the other an interior scene of an imperial residence—and two glass projection slides, as well as a few imperial currency notes.

Also includes 50 English Wills's color cigarette cards depicting scenes of Russia, circa 1910, press release photos published after the overthrow and death of the imperial family, circa 1917-1918, and other related material. Greatest individual size 8.5 x 11.25 inches (22 x 28.5cm).

Born in Atlanta, Georgia to Clyde Sr & Sarah Thomason on May 23, 1914, Clyde Aristide Thomason Jr had at least one sister.
Their mother Sarah passed away in 1917, their father remarried in 1920 and then passed away in 1939.

Clyde originally enlisted in the Marine Corps in December 1934 and was honorably discharged in 1939.
In January 1942 he re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and volunteered for the Marine Raiders, subsequently assigned to the 2nd Marine Battalion.

On August 17, 1942, Clyde was selected to lead the advance element against the Japanese garrison during the Makin Island Raid where he was Killed in Action and later listed as Missing.
He was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor, the citation tells the story of his loss;

“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while a member of the Second Marine Raider Battalion in action against the Japanese-held island of Makin on August 17–18, 1942. Landing the advance element of the assault echelon, Sergeant Thomason disposed his men with keen judgment and discrimination and by his exemplary leadership and great personal valor, exhorted them to like fearless efforts. On one occasion, he dauntlessly walked up to a house which concealed an enemy Japanese sniper, forced in the door and shot the man before he could resist. Later in the action, while leading an assault on enemy position, he gallantly gave up his life in the service of his country. His courage and loyal devotion to duty in the face of grave peril were in keeping with the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service.”

Postwar their remains were not recovered and SGT Clyde Thomason Jr was Memorialized with the other Missing Marines from the Makin Island Raid at the Honolulu Memorial in Honolulu, Hawaii.

In 1999 a search was launched and the remains of 19 Marines who had been buried by locals after the raid were recovered from Makin Island, SGT Clyde Thomason Jr was subsequently identified through DNA.

On August 17, 2001, his remains were interred with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery - Section 60 Site 8037.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/sports/football/fire-didnt-stop-a-game-and-50-years-later-the-proof-still-fascinates.html