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World War 1 Victory Medal

Period1918

Place OwnedFreehold, New Jersey, USA

Date1918

MediumBronze, silk

Dimensions3 × 1.5 in. (7.6 × 3.8 cm)
Other (Pendant disk): 1.38 in. (3.5 cm)

InscribedOn pin bar: "NEW JERSEY" Circular pendant, front: "VICTORY / 1917 / 1918" Circular pendant, reverse: "PRESENTED / BY / THE STATE OF / NEW JERSEY / TO ITS CITIZENS WHO / SERVED IN THE / WORLD WAR"

ClassificationsBadges, Buttons, Medals, & Ribbons

Credit LineGift of Marion Vinyard, 2016

Object number2016.15.2

DescriptionA medal with a narrow bronze pin bar, woven silk blue and gold stripe grosgain ribbon. A circular pendant medal hangs from the ribbon, depicting Lady Victory at left, amid a scene of soldiers, battleships, and biplanes. On the reverse, a central inscription is flanked on either side by laurel sprigs, with the New Jersey state seal below.
NotesElwood Brown (7 March 1894 - September 1963), was a resident of Freehold, Monmouth County. From 1910 through 1940 he appears in the US Federal Census as a laborer at the Karagheusian Rug Mill. Brown served as a Private in the 2nd Infantry of the New Jersey National Guard during World War 1

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