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Make sure to read all of the information I have provided, I do my absolute best to identify and describe the item. The photos are of the actual item. 1916 DOMINICAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL, W/ FULL WRAP BROOCH. PRODUCED BY JOSEPH MAYER. RIBBON DRAPE TESTED UV NEGATIVE. The Dominican Campaign Medal is a military decoration of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps which was created on December 29, 1921. To be awarded the Dominican Campaign Medal, a servicemen must have performed active military duty in the Dominican Republic between May 5 and December 4, 1916. The medal commemorates the 1916 United States invasion of the Dominican Republic. The medal was designed by Adolph Alexander Weinman, and the design approved by the United States Commission of Fine Arts in November 1923. It was the first Navy and Marine Corps medal whose reverse face contained the inscription “For Service” on a straight line. All previous reverse faces of Navy and Marine Corps medals had placed the inscription on a curve. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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2ND NICARAGUAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL. W/ SPLIT WRAP BROOCH. PRODUCED BY THE U. RIBBON DRAPE TESTED UV NEGATIVE. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal is a campaign medal of the United States Navy & Marine Corps which was authorized by an act of the United States Congress on 8 November 1929. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was awarded for service during operations in Nicaragua from 1926 to 1933. An earlier campaign medal, the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, was awarded for service in Nicaragua 1912. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was considered a separate award from the first version of the medal and Navy regulations permitted the receipt and wear of both decorations, if so authorized. Southerland, who had been in overall command of both Nicaraguan campaigns, was the first recipient of both versions of the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal appeared as a medal suspended from a red ribbon with several white stripes. The medal displayed a woman (representing Columbia), armed with a sword, defending two other figures with a cloak. The medal bore the words Second Nicaraguan Campaign with the dates 1926 – 1930 displayed on the medal’s edges (although the medal was authorized until 1933). No devices were authorized. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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USMC early Good Conduct Medal, 26883. The number on the rim of the medal and a nice early medal.

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United States Marine Corps private 1st class Clayton Ward Cox was born September 22nd 1904 in West Virginia. Clayton enlisted as a private in the U. Marines on September 29th 1925 in Paris Island, South Carolina. He qualified as a marksman in December 1925 and spent the next 2 years training at Paris Island, S. Cox sailed for Nicaragua with the Forty-Seventh Company, First Battalion, Eleventh Regiment, Second Brigade aboard the U. Saratoga on January 26th 1928, arriving and disembarking at Corinto, Nicaragua on February 16th. Cox engaged enemy forces on May 13th and 14th near Cau, Nicaragua. Cox reenlisted and was transferred to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba in April 1931. By September 1931 Cox was serving with Headquarters Company, First Brigade in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Cox would remain stationed in Haiti the next 2 years before he sailed aboard the U. Chaumont to Shanghai China in September 1933. He was transferred to Company “G”, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines. The regiment was there to protect American interests in the Shanghai International Settlement, a politically sensitive role. By late 1934, the 2nd Battalion was quartered in the Chengtu Compound. In September 1935 Pvt. Cox sailed back aboard the Chaumont to San Fransisco, California where he was discharged from the Marines on September 27th of that 1935. United States Marine Corps private 1st class Clayton Ward Cox passed away February 2nd 1947 in Nemours, West Virginia. I will include 45 full size color printed copies of the research presented. ORIGINAL WORLD WAR I UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL. RE-RIBBONED DRAPE TESTED U. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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United States Navy Rear Admiral Charles Alton MacGowan was born November 12th 1890 in Portland, Maine. He attended Portland High School. While a student at this institution, he displayed interest in military tactics, and was active in the high school cadet organization, serving in Company B with the rank of second lieutenant. He was keenly interested in rifle practice and was a member of the rifle team which won the New England High School Championship. Following his graduation from high school, he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis as a midshipmen. He graduated and was commissioned an Ensign on June 6th 1914. He was promoted to Lieutenant J. And transferred to the battleship U. Georgia where he served during World War I. He served as radio officer and engineering repair officer aboard the battleships U. Arizona and then transferred to the staff of Admiral Louis R. De Steiguer on the battleship U. California, where he served as radio officer for the Pacific Fleet. MacGowan was promoted to Captain and served aboard the battleship U. West Virginia in the late 1920’s. He was promoted to Lieutenant commander and served in Shanghai China aboard the armored cruiser U. Rochester in the early 1930’s. He was issued a Yangtze Service medal for his time aboard the Rochester. He would then serve aboard the light cruiser U. Savannah in the late 1930’s and in the 18th Destroyer Fleet in the Pacifie during World War Il. He later became officer in charge of Indoctrination and Communication at the Naval Training School at Harvard University in 1942. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Navy Commendation Medals during the war. Commander MacGowan’s son, Captain Richard Alton MacGowan of the 698th Ordnance Company in the Philippines was captured at the Fall of Bataan on Corregidor Island following the American surrender on May 6th 1942, and died of malaria on July 25th 1942, at the Cabanatuan Prison Camp in Nueva Ecija Province, Philippines. After the war, MacGowan was promoted to Commander and served as engineering repair officer at Bordeaux, France, before volunteering for the Submarine School at New London, Connecticut where he earned his Dolphins. Shortly after the war, Commander MacGowan retired from the navy. He was promoted to Rear Admiral on August 7th 1947. Admiral MacGowan passed away on August 19th 1968 at Letterman Hospital in San Francisco, California. He is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia. I will include 60 full size color printed pages of the research presented. ORIGINAL UNITED STATES NAVY YANGTZE SERVICE CAMPAIGN MEDAL W/ FULL WRAP BROOCH. PRODUCED BY THE U. N? 2092 (TRACED IN ROLLS TO ADMIRAL CHARLES MACGOWAN). RE-RIBBONED PERIOD DRAPE TESTED U. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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United States Navy Chief Boatswains Mate Benjamin Kominsky-Cummins (service N? 102-99-65) C. N? 20880 was born November 14th 1881, although mistakenly recorded 1887, in New York City, New York to Rabbi Simon Kominsky and his wife Libby. He would complete elementary and secondary schooling through 8th grade. Ben stood at 5 foot 5 inches with grey eyes and brown hair. Benjamin enlisted as a seaman in the U. Navy on March 23rd 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served aboard the armored cruiser U. Tennessee as she sailed for ports around the world to France, Spain, Brazil, Honduras, Chili, Panama, Costa Rica, China, Philippines, Japan & Uruguay. The Tennessee also patrolled off the California coast and later sailed for Samoa, to resume service with the Pacific Fleet. Seaman Kominsky was promoted to an elections mate, and honorably discharged from the Navy, earning his good conduct medal on March 24th 1910. Electricians Mate Kominsky reenlisted and served through 1915 when he was discharged. He reenlisted March 25th 1915. The United States declared war on Germany on April 6th 1917, electricians mate Kominsky was promoted to boatswains mate 1st class on the same day he was transferred to the Battleship U. North Dakota which was conducting gunnery training in Chesapeake Bay. Kominsky was then promoted to Chief boatswains mate on November 1st 1917. The North Dakota remained in American waters for the duration of the war, and did not see enemy action. She was based out of York River, Virginia and New York City, and was tasked with training gunners and engine room personnel for the rapidly expanding wartime fleet. The chief remained aboard her until April 17th 1919. Chief Kominsky was discharged from the Navy on June 14th 1919, and transferred to the Fleet Naval Reserve, where he served until July 26th 1933 when retired from the Reserves, after a 30 year career. During the 1930’s Ben worked as a credit manager for a furniture sales company. He worked for the Pennsylvania Furniture Company when he signed the World War II draft on April 27th 1942. United States Navy Chief Boatswains Mate Benjamin Kominsky passed away at Mercy Hospital, Johnstown on January 29th 1948 at age 60. He is buried at the Rodef Sholom Cemetery. Geistown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania. I will include 20 full size color printed copies of the research presented. UNITED STATES NAVY GOOD CONDUCT MEDAL W/ REPLACED OPEN “C” CATCH FULL WRAP BROOCH. N? 20880 BENJAMIN KOMINSKY U. RE-RIBBONED DRAPE TESTED U. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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Original Russia 1920 1921 Bizerte Cross Enamel Military Medal Numbered 815. Gilt and enameled base metal, 39 x 39 mm, screw back suspension. Rudichenko – 1.8.21. Very rare medal issued by the military forces of the White Movement in Russia between 1920 and 1921 to signify the White Army’s Black Sea Fleet forces (“Wrangel’s Fleet”) stay in the port of Bizerte in Tunisia. Enameled face with light gilding around the edges, a few surface scuffs but nothing major, back side quite dark, numbered at top of the cross 815.

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RE-RIBBONED DRAPE TESTED U. Specifically, it recognizes service between April 1, 1919, and June 15, 1920, encompassing operations against armed opposition or under circumstances deemed equivalent by the Department of the Navy. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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2ND NICARAGUAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL. W/ SPLIT WRAP BROOCH. PRODUCED BY THE U. RIBBON DRAPE TESTED UV NEGATIVE. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal is a campaign medal of the United States Navy & Marine Corps which was authorized by an act of the United States Congress on 8 November 1929. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was awarded for service during operations in Nicaragua from 1926 to 1933. An earlier campaign medal, the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, was awarded for service in Nicaragua 1912. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was considered a separate award from the first version of the medal and Navy regulations permitted the receipt and wear of both decorations, if so authorized. Southerland, who had been in overall command of both Nicaraguan campaigns, was the first recipient of both versions of the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal appeared as a medal suspended from a red ribbon with several white stripes. The medal displayed a woman (representing Columbia), armed with a sword, defending two other figures with a cloak. The medal bore the words Second Nicaraguan Campaign with the dates 1926 – 1930 displayed on the medal’s edges (although the medal was authorized until 1933). No devices were authorized. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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2ND NICARAGUAN CAMPAIGN MEDAL. W/ SPLIT WRAP BROOCH. PRODUCED BY THE U. RIBBON DRAPE TESTED UV NEGATIVE. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal is a campaign medal of the United States Navy & Marine Corps which was authorized by an act of the United States Congress on 8 November 1929. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was awarded for service during operations in Nicaragua from 1926 to 1933. An earlier campaign medal, the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal, was awarded for service in Nicaragua 1912. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal was considered a separate award from the first version of the medal and Navy regulations permitted the receipt and wear of both decorations, if so authorized. Southerland, who had been in overall command of both Nicaraguan campaigns, was the first recipient of both versions of the Nicaraguan Campaign Medal. The Second Nicaraguan Campaign Medal appeared as a medal suspended from a red ribbon with several white stripes. The medal displayed a woman (representing Columbia), armed with a sword, defending two other figures with a cloak. The medal bore the words Second Nicaraguan Campaign with the dates 1926 – 1930 displayed on the medal’s edges (although the medal was authorized until 1933). No devices were authorized. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can do for you!

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