8MM Posted February 16, 2016 Share #1 Posted February 16, 2016 Yet another recent purchase. As usual,I bought it before I could research it..These don't last long on websites,I've found,so I often gamble. I lose about as often as I win. (Not Ebay,BTW) The engraving looks vaguely similar to the 1948 pattern,but I'm guessing it's privately done. Oh,and it's numbered as well-291022 (or 281022) And of course,I can find no info on this name. Seller says it was found in Grand Prairie,TX. That's all I know. Fake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MM Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share #2 Posted February 16, 2016 The rear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smwinter207 Posted February 16, 2016 Share #3 Posted February 16, 2016 I see a guy from Ohio. He was born in 1910. Enlisted in 1942, so he was a little older. 35287093 Arthur E Shondell Maybe misspelled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MM Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share #4 Posted February 16, 2016 I did see that guy,but could it be possible to actually misspell it and not be thrown away? I for one would be pretty irate seems implausible to me,is that something that happened much? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclegrumpy Posted February 16, 2016 Share #5 Posted February 16, 2016 Spelling errors are more common than you would think. I suspect you have the correct guy without the "C", though you would have to research him to really find out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclegrumpy Posted February 16, 2016 Share #6 Posted February 16, 2016 Also, it is not fake. It is a style of engraving that is sometimes seen on WIA PHs...typically to guys that were recovering in Stateside hospitals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MM Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share #7 Posted February 16, 2016 Whew... Thank you guys very much! I'm very glad to hear it,and excited (?) to start YET ANOTHER research project.. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWIIDADS Posted February 16, 2016 Share #8 Posted February 16, 2016 Looks like he died in 1977 and was buried in Charlotte Memorial Gardens in Punta Gorda, Charlotte Co., Florida. Maybe they have a service headstone application at the cemetary. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan H. Posted February 16, 2016 Share #9 Posted February 16, 2016 Speaking of misspelled names on medals.... When Larry Pistole was writing his book "Pictorial History of the Flying Tigers," ex AVG pilot James H. Howard gave Pistole his Medal of Honor. He didn't really seem to care about it much because the government engraver screwed up his name on the back side! Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MM Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share #10 Posted February 16, 2016 You know, in the few hours I've had to research since I first posted this,I've found that spelling errors on medals is much more common than I ever would have imagined! I've found 11 instances/reports,whatever including this one. Crazy! Thanks very much again everyone. Now to track down his particulars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indexred Posted February 17, 2016 Share #11 Posted February 17, 2016 Arthur E. Shondell (35287093) served with the 259th Infantry Regiment. He was wounded by a rifle bullet on April 8, 1945. The bullet struck a temporal bone on the side of his head and caused a compound fracture. The injury also resulted in Bell’s palsy and deafness, perhaps just in one ear. He spent 388 day hospitalized during which time doctors performed a sequestrectomy and a neurectomy. The latter was meant to treat the Bell’s palsy. He received a medical discharge on May 1, 1946, and died at age 67 in Florida as noted above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MM Posted February 17, 2016 Author Share #12 Posted February 17, 2016 WOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indexred Posted February 17, 2016 Share #13 Posted February 17, 2016 Shondell’s story jibes with unclegrumpy’s comment about the engraving style being associated hospital patients recovering Stateside. This was a well deserved Purple Heart. The facts behind it give one pause for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottplen Posted February 17, 2016 Share #14 Posted February 17, 2016 love it when the research falls in line !!! Great heart !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nic Posted February 17, 2016 Share #15 Posted February 17, 2016 Well done Indexred. Awesome you could give us the rest of the story. 8MM, I wouldn't sweat the misspelling. I saw that one too and came to the same conclusion as the others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_the_hun84 Posted March 25, 2016 Share #16 Posted March 25, 2016 Well, this is one well-traveled medal.....I now own it here in Colorado. Its not going anywhere though, 65th Div stuff does not leave my clutches I believe his name was in fact Schondell as spelled on the medal...he may have slightly anglicized his name when he entered the service, not an uncommon thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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