Engraved WWI Identification Disc and Love Token
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WWI Homemade Dog Tag, Lieut. S.J. Tilleson, A.S. U.S. Army on 1918 2 Franc coin**, at
1st Lt. Selmer J. Tilleson was a Supply Officer with the US Air Service during WWI. He was born in 1890 and died in 1984. During WWI he was stationed in Issoudon France where he helped to improve and operate a large aero supply warehouse in Issoudon France. The First Wings of War, Air Force Reserve in World War I publication (p. 27) states as follows, available at https://media.defense.gov/2015/Sep/11/2001329832/-1/-1/0/AFD-150911-040.pdf
"Issoudon also boasted a large aero supply warehouse originally organized by Captain H.B.
Close and further improved by Lieutenant Selmer J. Tilleson. The variety of aircraft flown at the
3 AIC included 17 different types of Nieuport aircraft, four types of Moraine aircraft, three types
of SPAD aircraft, and several others. As a result, the warehouse contained thousands of
individual parts listed under 30,000 different separate categories."
Shortly after WWI the US Air Service issued a publication regarding lessons learned in which a section was authored by Lt. Tilleson. available at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA074433.pdf . A snippet is below:
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Those are some outstanding pieces of history! I too have a lot of interest in the Civil War, and Reconstruction eras. My family was deeply involved on the Confederate side. So much so that their name is pretty famous. Maybe not so much today in modern times, but definitely post war and even through the early 20th century.
I descend from the Forrest family. Lt. Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, Maj. William Hezekiah Forrest, LTC Aaron Forrest, LTC Jesse Anderson Forrest, and COL Jeffrey Edward Forrest are all my uncles. (2nd great grand uncles to be exact)
Dwayne F. Sessom
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@dsessom It's neat that you have in depth knowledge about your family's Civil War history. I only have fragmented snapshots of my family's Civil War experience. My grandmother was from Draketown, GA. Her grandmother (my great great grandmother) was the daughter of small farmers and was about 10 years old when Sherman's troops marched through the area. She told my grandmother that they took all their food, except for flour that they hid between the folds of quilts. Always interesting to learn about people's personal experiences during the war. You'll find one off my other consignments in the same 12/11 auction interesting. It's a private engraving on a Barber dime that would have been created for a CSA reunion at the turn of the century. Interesting to wonder who it might have belonged to. Here's the item:
https://auctions.stacksbowers.com/lots/view/3-1EVTQH/confederate-states-of-america-private-commemorative-engraving-on-a-1901-dated-barber-dime
Really cool coins!
Bump as all these items go live today at Noon. All are still really cheap!
Those two pictured are really nice
Lafayette Grading Set