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World War Mothers of New England


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Hello, All,

 

I purchased this Past President badge last year and I have been trying to find more information about the organization. The group was known as the World War Mothers of New England. The reference to the World War suggests that this piece dates from 1917-1941. The significance of the blue star would be to represent a son in service. The gold star would represent a son in service who was killed in action. The white star is a mystery to me. I am not certain what this might represent as I have not seen its use in other son in service ephemera.

 

Does anyone have more information regarding this group, or the symbolism of the white star?

 

Kevin

 

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Very interesting medal Kevin.

 

I wonder if they are somehow related to the American War Mothers organization formed in 1917. There are a lot of similarities in terms of the stars. Their web site is here:

 

http://www.americanwarmoms.org/

 

The blue and gold star designations are listed - but nothing about a white one. Although, you'll notice that their emblem on the home page has a white star.

 

They apear to have had local chapters - could be what you have is from one of those that was chartered under a slightly different name - or a spin-off - or perhaps just a similar train-of-thought by a totally separate group.

 

One guess would be that the white star symbolized perhaps MIA = unaccounted for service members? That might make sense in this context.

 

Anyway, thanks for the posting. Always like something new and interesting to look-at and ponder.

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Hi Kevin and fellow members, with regards to the white star, I seem to recall that it may be in relation to the actual women their selves ( Mothers ). When I attended the 1989 Medal of Honor meeting I had the honor of being seated on the MOH veterans stand by invitation of Ernest Childers ( MOH ). I photographed almost every vehicle and float and marching unit that paraded in front of the stand. I remember a group of these mothers being driven past on an articulated trailer, they all wore a white military style jacket, with white skirt and white

overseas style cap.

 

I hope that this helps, however my other suggestion is look again at the website for this organisation there is a ' Contact us ' button, why not do that and ask what the white star represents.

 

Cheers ( Lewis )

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I am pretty confident that the blue star was for soldiers "over there," silver for "wounded" or "maimed" and Gold for those who had given their "all."

 

I know I read this somewhere, but now I will have to go digging to find the reference.

 

Chris

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