100 years ago 91st Infantry Division

carabonnair · July 13, 2018 10:37AM

This item in my collection turns 100 tomorrow (also Bastille Day), a souvenir from the Great War. The 347th Field Artillery Regiment (4.7"), 166th Field Artillery Brigade, 91st Division
The 91st Infantry Division was known as the "Wild West Division" because it was mostly west coast men, who departed for England in the summer of 1918.
Engraved on the obverse of a German 5 mark piece.

Share your World War I souvenirs if you have them...

Smittys · July 13, 2018 10:41AM

Wow great piece

Redglobe · July 13, 2018 10:46AM

Yes,it sure is

Smudge · July 13, 2018 10:47AM

Back a second time.

golden · July 13, 2018 10:56AM

Very,very cool!

mustangmanbob · July 13, 2018 11:04AM

My brother and I share 2 pair of spurs. My grandfather was a cavalry private in WW1, and was gassed, but survived. My brother has his spurs. My dad was a corporal, was captured in Italy, held in Yugoslavia, while on a captured German horse. Their company (a scout company) under the command of an old cavalry CPT, had transferred out all those who could not ride, and conducted mounted reconnaissance. The group of 3 soldiers were probably the last US troops captured on horseback.

This is a picture of my dad after he was released with his German horse.

johnny9434 · July 13, 2018 11:28AM

i like

Kkathyl · July 13, 2018 11:36AM

very nice indeed

MedalCollector · July 13, 2018 2:59PM

Muy cool! Very nice piece.

ECHOES · July 13, 2018 3:09PM

Wow, Very Cool

DCW · July 13, 2018 3:31PM

Love it @carabonnair !
It's tangible pieces of history like this that always get my blood pumping.

northcoin · July 13, 2018 9:58PM

Thanks for the history. Hard to realize it was "only" 100 years ago that we were engaged in World War I. I recall reading in my grade school "Weekly Reader" that the 100th anniversary of The Civil War had just occurred.

Last week I visited a Veterans Museum in my community and was struck by the fact that it will only be another 25 years or so that the 100th anniversary of World War II will be upon us.