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US WW1 312th MG Battalion, 79th Division Officer Grouping
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€ 695,00
In a very good condition a stunning and rare US WW1 Grouping on the name of 1st lieutenant William W. Ball, member of the 79th Infantry Division 'Cross of Lorraine', 312th Machine Gun Battalion.
The grouping was resently discovered in an antique mall in the USA.
It contains the history of the American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.) officer William Ball.
William was attached to the famous 312th Machien Gun Battalion and was wounded on November 1918 at the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
He was on the MG school, Gas school and was a Gas Officer on the front lines in WW1.
The grouping contains his Dog-tags, Named 312th MG armband, Bouillon made shoulder patches, officer book, AEF papers with portrait pictures, rank insignia, letters to home, the rare 312th MG Battalion officer collar rifles, christmas cards, bombshell map 1918 and WW2 items from his son Kenneth Ball.
A very rare and stunning WW1 Cross of Lorraine Grouping!
When deployed to France in 1918, the 79th Division was part of the 5th Army Corps of the American Expeditionary Force (A.E.F.), and participated in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
During it's formation at "Camp" Meade, the component units of the 79th typically recruited from more specific places within the region. For example, the 312th Machine Gun Battalion, (part of the 79th Division's 158th Infantry Brigade) was comprised mostly of recruits from Washington, DC. Any WWI veteran from DC was most likely in the 312th MG BN justlike William Ball.