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WW1 30th Division Medic Grouping


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Here is a grouping from medic named Ridley Harris. It includes his helmet shell, Victory Medal, War Diary and A St Nazaire souvenir postcard pack. The helmet has a caduceus scraped into the front of the paint beneath the Old Hickory logo. His diary is a serious of brief highlights of the days, some battle entries, some where the day is just described as "hell", trips to the preacher or to attend the "preaching" and a good number of whiskey entries. This first image came in sideways. I tried to delete it and install a correct orientation but I was not able to .. sorry about that.

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entries: hell and whiskey. Maybe "whiskey" was code for something else like a medical aid station. He made reference to portions of the lines the 30th maintained as the "brown line" and "blue line" and other portions noted by colors in the sector.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Great find, the helmet insignia is really nice and having his dairy and victory medal is fantastic. I will try and help you find anything about him. Do you have any idea where his was from?

 

Marty

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