This lantern slide, “Lt. Judd’s Gym Team in Havre, France (1917),” shows twenty-two young men, all members of Lt. Judd’s Gym Team and Physical Training Instructors of the Y.M.C.A., at an allied camp in Havre, France.
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Leslie Judd, originally from Australia, directed the team. He was a graduate of and professor at the Y.M.C.A. College (now known as Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. During World War I, the Australian Y.M.C.A. ran soldiers’ clubs in Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere. They also pooled their resources with the United States, Canada, England, and New Zealand to form the International Hospitality League, which provided social services to all Allied troops. This slide is part of Springfield College’s collection of lantern slides depicting Australian Y.M.C.A. war work during World War I. In 1921, Leslie Judd became the first full-time gymnastics coach at Springfield College and, among many other accomplishments and innovations, went on to create the world-famous “statuary of youths” that was later renamed “tableaux.”
There is some damage on the slide that partially obscures the image; Text on frame of slide "Havre - Lt. Judd's Gym Team. P.T. Instructors"
Part of the Australian Y.M.C.A. WWI Lantern Slide Series