Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An American Great War group of four awarded to Private 1st Class Leslie Carson Woolsey, 318th Engineers

U.S.A., Victory Medal 1918, 2 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne; France, Verdun Medal; War Commemorative 1917-18, unofficial; American Legion Medal, bronze and enamel, all unnamed, good very fine and better (lot) £80-100

Leslie Carson Woolsey was born in East Highland, California on 13 May 1894. As a Student aged 23 years he enlisted into the U.S. Army at Galesburg, Illinois on 4 February 1918. He sailed from the U.S.A. on 6 June 1918 for service in France as a Private 1st Class in the 318th Engineers. He served in the offensive at the Gerardiner Sector, in the Meuse-Argonne sector, and in the Army of Occupation. He returned home on 11 June 1919 and was honourably discharged shortly thereafter. Latterly employed as a Machinist, he died in Knox, Galesburg, Illinois, on 30 December 1977.

Sold with copied Honorable Discharge document; copied extract from the Knox County Honor Roll - which bears his photograph and lists some military and biographical details; copied certificate of death; modern photograph of his headstone; an original (damaged) 318th Engineers Sapper magazine, January 1919; two cloth badges; an American Legion lapel badge; and an embroidered patriotic silk handkerchief.