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World war one Purple Heart


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skipranney

Name Clayton Edward Gordon

Purple Heart

Number 9973

Rank Pvt

Sn-124178

ED-9/25/1917

RD-5/29/1919

Last Unit-"B" Battery, 5th Field Artillery Reg 1st Infantry Division

Overseas 1/12/1918-5/9/1919

Wounded severely 7/18/1918

Engagements

Lorraine, Ansauville, oisi, montdidier, Soissons

The date of his wound was the first day of the five day Battle of Soissons

From Niagara Falls NY

Have a lot of his original paperwork and 2 posters

Purple Heart is made by BB&B

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devildog34

Great group! Very tough to find the Columbia WIA accolade and the PH, I love it when the paper accompanies the group! Thanks for keeping this brave doughboy's story.

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skipranney

Thank you

Is that poster presented at a different time than the Niagara falls one I thought they came together

 

this is a local group Niagara Falls is about 10 miles from me the lady I got this from was her father-in-law she just turned 94 and still going

but wanted it to be cared for she had no clue the posters went with them I saved thus group she is looking for more

she found his rank and unit patch have not photoed them yet

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mhalstead1950

Great group, nice to have all of the documentation along with the patches really brings it all together. Thanks for sharing.

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