dog tag
Thu May 13, 2021 5:17 pm
My sister and niece found this dog tag while treasure hunting along the beach off the old Meigs feild airport [now a park] in Chicago. They would like to find the soldiers family if possible.
Ray
Ray
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Re: dog tag
Thu May 13, 2021 5:35 pm
Looks like it was in a fire.
Re: dog tag
Thu May 13, 2021 6:22 pm
Thanks, I'll forward that to them.
Ray
Ray
Re: dog tag
Fri May 14, 2021 12:27 pm
Re: dog tag
Fri May 14, 2021 3:03 pm
It's a WW1 dog tag. They were all hand-stamped like that at the unit or individual solider level. It's aluminum, right?
I wish you luck finding the family as you don't appear to have a complete service number or unit marked and the name is very common. Chicago was even more of a transport hub back then than it is now as a lot of railroads came through the area. A doughboy could have laid over there between troop trains on his way to some other part of the country (maybe even the east coast for a ship to France, but like in WW2, many WW1 soldiers never left the country).
I wish you luck finding the family as you don't appear to have a complete service number or unit marked and the name is very common. Chicago was even more of a transport hub back then than it is now as a lot of railroads came through the area. A doughboy could have laid over there between troop trains on his way to some other part of the country (maybe even the east coast for a ship to France, but like in WW2, many WW1 soldiers never left the country).
Re: dog tag
Mon May 17, 2021 4:47 pm
Northerly Island didn't have an airport until after WW2. Northerly Island was the site of the Century of Progress exhibition (1933–34) in Chicago. Maybe a visiting soldier lost it when attending the exhibition?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meigs_Field