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Commemorative Plaques & Flagholders
1917 World War
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This flagholder was found in Erie County PA by Bill Klauk. We don't really know what it is or anything about the organization that placed it. Any ideas or information welcome.
Here is a note from Bill:
Joyce,
After posting a query on the PAERIE-L maillist, and getting feedback from
several people, the 313th Machine Gun Battalion was part of the 80th Division.
After visiting two other local cemeteries and finding this flagholder 7 or 8
more times (I didn't have my camera with me), I guessed that this may have been
a unit made up with a lot of Erie people. After asking and getting a reply
from the 80th Division Veterans contact, it seems (but not confirmed) that the
313MGB may have been in today's terms, Army Reserve, after WW1 as one person
mentioned to me that their grandfather was a member and their grandmother was in
the auxilary. I need to return and record all of the names, dates and
other gravestone info on all of the ones I saw and do some more research on the
origin of the flagholder.
Bill Klauk
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