Photograph: Oswald Beverly McEwan in U.S. Army officer's uniform

A sepia-toned head-and-shoulders studio photograph of a young man in U.S. Army officer’s service uniform, mounted on the lined-paper album page. He wears a peaked service cap with the U.S. Army officer’s eagle insignia, a four-pocket olive-drab service coat with U.S. and crossed-cannon collar discs (Field Artillery branch insignia) and lieutenant’s bars on the shoulders, white shirt and dark necktie. A diagonal crease/fold mark runs through the upper right of the print. The photograph is captioned in pencil below in the compiler’s hand: ‘Oswald Beverly McEwan’ — note the handwritten spelling ‘Beverly’ (no second ‘e’), although engraved/printed family records elsewhere in the archive use ‘Beverley.’ The image is consistent with his 2nd Lieutenant commission c. 1941-42, contemporaneous with the engagement announcement (p180) and the wedding invitation (p187) for his marriage to Mary Ann Walker on 14 May 1941.

The handwritten caption uses the spelling “Beverly”; engraved family announcements (e.g., p187 wedding invitation) use “Beverley.” Album metadata standardizes on the engraved-form spelling “Beverley” while preserving the handwritten form here.