Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Purple Heart’ group of four awarded to Private H. C. Stefens, 165th United States Infantry, who was wounded in action on 28 July 1918

United States of America, Purple Heart, gilt and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Harry C. Steffens’, the edge numbered ‘6701’, in damaged original Bailey, Banks, & Biddle Co. card box of issue, similarly numbered 6701, lacking lid; Victory Medal 1918, bronze, 5 clasps, Defensive Sector, Meuse-Argonne, St. Mihiel, Aisne-Marne, Champagne-Marne; Army of Occupation of Germany Medal, bronze; State of New York Great War Service Medal, bronze, reverse officially numbered ‘49181’, good very fine (4) £200-£240

Harry C. Steffens served with “I” Company, 165th Infantry, 42nd ‘Rainbow’ Division during the Great War on the Western Front, and was wounded in action on 28 July 1918.

Sold with five postcard photographs taken of the Western Front, 1919, showing the damage caused.