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Medal: "San Francisco to Her Warrior Sons"
Spent a couple hours noodling around a local patch of San Francisco turf and toward the end of the day, expecting a wheatie, pulled this out:
Not too old but a pretty damn cool find. A little internet search confirmed it as a medal awarded to surviving S.F. soldiers returning from the front lines of WWI!
"I believe what you have is a medal presented to SF soldiers returning from World War I.
During the war, the Army organized a unit of local men up and designated it "363rd Infantry Regiment, 91st Infantry Division." The unit was quickly nicknamed "San Francisco's Own" and saw extensive action in the Meusse-Argonne offensive of 1918. (My great uncle was in the 363rd and died in that battle.)
When the 363rd returned home in 1919 the City hosted a huge parade on Market Street and rally at Civic Center. I think you have a memento presented to one of "San Francisco's Own" at the time of that homecoming."
The reverse, 980/100 Silver:
And another cool link: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wwi-san-francisco-returning-soldiers-75441843
I can just see the parade down Market Street, and can only imagine what the person wearing this must have seen in that war... Pretty amazing.
Thanks for looking!
Spent a couple hours noodling around a local patch of San Francisco turf and toward the end of the day, expecting a wheatie, pulled this out:
Not too old but a pretty damn cool find. A little internet search confirmed it as a medal awarded to surviving S.F. soldiers returning from the front lines of WWI!
"I believe what you have is a medal presented to SF soldiers returning from World War I.
During the war, the Army organized a unit of local men up and designated it "363rd Infantry Regiment, 91st Infantry Division." The unit was quickly nicknamed "San Francisco's Own" and saw extensive action in the Meusse-Argonne offensive of 1918. (My great uncle was in the 363rd and died in that battle.)
When the 363rd returned home in 1919 the City hosted a huge parade on Market Street and rally at Civic Center. I think you have a memento presented to one of "San Francisco's Own" at the time of that homecoming."
The reverse, 980/100 Silver:
And another cool link: http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/wwi-san-francisco-returning-soldiers-75441843
I can just see the parade down Market Street, and can only imagine what the person wearing this must have seen in that war... Pretty amazing.
Thanks for looking!
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that is finer than Sterling silver at (.925)!! 
