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Interwar Studio Portrait Uniform & Insignia details


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Aloha Everyone,

 

Interwar studio portraits sent home to the folks or sweethearts are great sources for documenting period details of uniform and insignia wear and often have interesting period decorative military frames too.  Feel free to post some that you may have in your collections here.

 

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Interwar Private, Battery B collar discs, 8th Field Artillery DUI, Hawaiian (Taro) Division felt SSI

Hawaiian Artillery Brigade, Hawaiian Division 1938 Schofield Barracks, T.H.

Square pocket flaps, leather garrison belt & necktie

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Photograph and Military themed stand up frame from Hawaiian Photo Service, Honolulu, T.H.

 

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Interwar Coast Artilleryman's Portrait

A Battery, 64th Coast Artillery (AA), Fort Shafter, T.H. circa 1924

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Infantry Sergeant

Hawaiian Division

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Company D (no regiment on disc) with felt taro Division patch 1920's

 

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Corporal - Third Engineers Band

Schofield Barracks, 1922-1925

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On 9/20/2022 at 11:46 PM, kiaiokalewa said:

1st Division, 6th Field Artillery Regiment circa. 1925

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Hoosier Alexander Arch, fired first shot by American Army in WWI. Great photo!

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11th Field Artillery Regiment

Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1921

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Lieutenant Colonel Beverly F. Browne

Commanding 11th Field Artillery

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Redleg Captain used an old photo in his blues in 1921

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Captain Wm. J. Jones

Battery "E" 11th F.A.

Schofield Barracks, T.H. 1921

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 Major or Lt Col Thomas West Hammond, a friends fathers ancestor. DSM and WWI Victory with 3 stars. No numerals on his crossed rifles . (Was ist der regiment?) About 1930.

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1 hour ago, 12thengr said:

 Major or Lt Col Thomas West Hammond, a friends fathers ancestor. DSM and WWI Victory with 3 stars. No numerals on his crossed rifles . (Was ist der regiment?) About 1930.

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I found this picture of him on Find-A-Grave.  He is wearing crossed rifles (infantry) with the numbers 206.  I can't make out the shoulder sleeve insignia but maybe someone else can identify it.  I found an entry on a muster roll dated March 31, 1925 showing him as a major with the 206th Inf and St. Paul Minnesota.  The 106th Infantry was part of the Minnesota National Guard during this time period.  He seems to have taught a number of years at the Army War College in Washington D.C.  after WW1.  There are like 3 pages of muster rolls for a Thomas W. Hammond and I picked out a few.  

 

 

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 Thanks Tonomachi, great information. He is either the father or more likely the uncle of a WWII Marine. Capt, later Major and Col. Bruce Hammond.

 

  If I may, do you have his Find-a-Grave I.D?  I am a member. Thanks, JC

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Musn't overlook the Interwar Devil Dogs...

 

USMC Brigadier General Dion Williams

CG 1925 Marine Maneuvers in Hawaii

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GEN. DION WILLIAMS, Commanding Division of Marines in Hawaii

Apr 17, 1925

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On 10/11/2022 at 6:50 PM, Tonomachi said:

I found this picture of him on Find-A-Grave.  He is wearing crossed rifles (infantry) with the numbers 206.  I can't make out the shoulder sleeve insignia but maybe someone else can identify it.  I found an entry on a muster roll dated March 31, 1925 showing him as a major with the 206th Inf and St. Paul Minnesota.  The 106th Infantry was part of the Minnesota National Guard during this time period.  He seems to have taught a number of years at the Army War College in Washington D.C.  after WW1.  There are like 3 pages of muster rolls for a Thomas W. Hammond and I picked out a few.  

 

 

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Patch in question was unit specific to the 206th Infantry Regiment.  The officer wears a circular variant of the shoulder insignia.  Below are two different examples of the units cloth insignia.  The significance of the diamond shape is unknown to me.

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Expert Machine Gunner

Company M, 27th Infantry 'Wolfhounds' Regiment, 1924

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Interwar Gilt Discs, US over 27 & M under Rifles, Hawaiian 'Taro' Division felt patch

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Hat and Collar Disk detail

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Same Gunner, now a Corporal in the 'new' uniform

unfortunately the photo is out of focus

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105th Company CAC, Fort Ruger, T.H. 1923

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Hawaiian Department SSI & Interwar Collar Disks

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105th Company Fort Ruger sign & '105' topiary

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