Lot n° 632
Estimation :
125 - 150
EUR
FIRST WORLD WAR - SOUVENIRS OF A COMBATTANT of the 54th Infa - Lot 632
FIRST WORLD WAR - SOUVENIRS OF A COMBATTANT of the 54th Infantry.
- bromide photo souvenir postcard, the flag of the 54th R.I.* placed on 2 bundles of 3 rifles.
- sheet of stationery from the "KNIGTS OF COLUMBUS" fraternity **, "on active service with the American Expeditionary Force" WITH ON THE VERSO A DRAWING OF THE SOLDERER CELEBRATING PEACE AND VICTORY.
- 8 bromides, period photos 11.5 x 16 cm, view of shells, soldiers' graves on the front, destroyed cannons, interior and exterior of a bombed-out church, convoy of captured German soldiers.
RARE AND UNIQUE DOCUMENTS.
- 54th Infantry Regiment: La Marne 1914, Epargnes 1915, Verdun 1916, L' Escaut 1918, Chemin des Dames, Saint Mihiel ... in 1914 was based at Compiègne.
** Knigts of Colombus, Confrérie des Chevaliers de Colomb, a Catholic charitable movement founded in 1882. Involved massively in the American expeditionary corps in France. Marshal FOCH became a member of the Knights of Columbus in 1921. His Marshal's baton (now in the Army Museum) was presented to him by James Flaherty, then Supreme Knight of the Order.
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