WW1 Marine Daogtag Grouping - Wounded at Belleau Wood on June 14th, 1918

[jason_w]

This grouping belonged to Pvt Thaddeus Allen who served with the 78th Company, 6th Marines from February 1918 until April 1919. He was gassed at Belleau Wood on June 14th 1918. What makes this grouping really special is that you can see this exact set of dogtags with large ring and chain in his portrait photos.

 

Some of his letters are in the possession of someone else who posted them here:

 

http://shimerblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/gassed-at-belleau-wood-by-thad-allen.html

 

 

Regards,

Jason

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[patrick_usmc]

Awesome set!

[katieony]

A very nice and unique group...thanks for posting!

Mike

[USdog]

Great tags! Awesome to see the same tags in the photo.

[Wharfmaster]

Very rare to have WW1 dog tags AND a photo of him wearing them. Nice !!!

 

 

 

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[Raidercollector]

Great little group, very hard to find with paper work.

 

Nick

[Torch03]

Nice little group.

 

Matt

[Gator]

That is an amazing set you have there. Thanks for sharing.

 

Mark

[bobgee]

Great! Love the photo Semper Fi......Bobgee

[teufelhunde.ret]

These will look great framed...

[Gator]

Not trying to hijack this post but as teufelhunde mentioned it, does anyone have examples of their tags in displays/frames? Im curious to see examples as I want to display some of mine. You can PM as to not take up jason's posting.

 

Mark

[Hessian]

Great set! Congrats Jason.

[David D]

Very cool. It is great you have a photo of him as well.

 

-Dave

[devildog34]

Does anyone here currently have this group, not inquiring to buy but I just have a question I would like to ask via PM.

Semper Fi

Kevin