Trying to identify a military uniform, ca. WWI
Upvote:2
This is my grandfather! I cannot believe this. I was just researching the 119th Air Service Squadron and this came up in the image results. I have goosebumps as I write this. I have a print of this photo but in the print form I have there is vignetting where as this has so much more detail. I have all his paperwork from his service. Fortunately, he never saw combat and was honorably discharged in January, 1919. Please let me know if you still have this negative. I would be happy to provide any conformation on my end that this is my grandfather.
Thank you,
Michael
Upvote:7
The shoulder patch would indicate this individual was a member of the 119th Aero Squadron, a World War I unit of the US Army Signal Corps Aviation Section dedicated to aerial reconnaissance. The wiki entry lists the following points of this units history:
- Organized as 5th Aviation School Squadron
- Re-designated 119th Aero Squadron, September 1917
- Re-designated: 11th Detachment, Air Service Aircraft Production, August 1918
- Langley Field, Virginia
- Demobilized: 29 May 1919
(The 119th has since been designated as a New Jersey National guard unit, the 177th Fighter Wing)
This units formation is also discussed in the book Joint Base Langley-Eustis By Mark A. Chambers
The chevrons on the soldiers left sleeve indicate time in service, as discussed here, with one chevron awarded for each 6 month period. The rank insignia on the right shoulder below the patch would indicate a sergeant.
More post
- 📝 How did the development of unbreakable and asymmetric encryption change warfare?
- 📝 Did the USSR attempt to broker peace negotiations between Japan and USA?
- 📝 What was the age of majority in 1900 United States?
- 📝 Were there any monarchs of England or the United Kingdom who were not technically first in the line of succession?
- 📝 Karl Marx's usage of "Moor"
- 📝 "Hat Hair" in History
- 📝 When did London newspapers start to use typewriters in their offices?
- 📝 Did the treaty of Versailles require closure of German cadet schools?
- 📝 How did the stigmatisation of nationalism begin?
- 📝 Did all of Egypt, or just the Ptolemies decline?
- 📝 What was the first regular airline service to pass low over urban areas?
- 📝 Given the concern about Soviet oil in World War II, why is so little mention made of captured Soviet coal reserves?
- 📝 Why didn't the British consider the USS President's attempted flight as a fake surrender?
- 📝 What started the Korean war?
- 📝 Was Japan really part of the Axis?
- 📝 Why wasn’t Japan colonized by the European empires?
- 📝 Where can I find reliable primary sources written by Ancient Egyptian laborers?
- 📝 What Were the Types of Sieges?
- 📝 Use separation papers to identify a US soldier's WWII service in Northern France GO 46 WD 45
- 📝 How did people receive news before the advent of the newspaper?
- 📝 what city was unix invented in?
- 📝 What kind of incense was used by the Sumerians?
- 📝 What cars were used with the Crocodile Class Ce 6/8 locomotive during its active years, especially at the beginning?
- 📝 Is there a ig-Nobel prize dinner?
- 📝 What uniform is this man wearing (probably Austro-Hungarian circa 1900)?
- 📝 What are the tabs/spaces for in the Beowulf text
- 📝 Have Moscow and Beijing ever been cities under the same rule?
- 📝 Is there a word for this aesthetic from the late 80s and early 90s?
- 📝 Why did Napoleon march to Moscow instead of Saint Petersburg?
- 📝 Specialization of labor among the ancient Maya
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Trying to identify a military uniform, ca. WWI
- 📝 Can you identify this possibly Austro-Hungarian military uniform from either WW1 or before?
- 📝 Can anyone help identify the country, rank, and unit this WWI uniform is from?
- 📝 Can you help identify this European military uniform and medals?
- 📝 Please help me identify the military uniform in picture below
- 📝 Can you please help identify this military uniform (1700's)?
- 📝 Can anyone identify this military uniform (1900-1915)?
- 📝 Where is this possibly WWI Eastern European military uniform from?
- 📝 Identify the circa 1920 uniform in this photo
- 📝 Can anyone identify the military branch and rank of the man in the front row? This is from Germany @1932
- 📝 Can anyone identify the regiment and rank from this WWI photograph?
- 📝 Did Roman military require uniform weapons?
- 📝 Can anyone identify my great grandfather's military uniform?
- 📝 What military uniform is this?
- 📝 Are these Polish WWI or WW2 uniforms? And any idea on the shorter gentleman's military decoration (cross?) on left shoulder?
- 📝 What type of military uniform is this?
- 📝 Can you identify this military uniform?
- 📝 Which army uniform is this (2nd Boer British or WWI US)?
- 📝 Identifying a military uniform from the early 19th century
- 📝 Please identify this WW1 Italian Uniform
- 📝 Seeking identification of a military uniform in a watercolor painting
- 📝 Can someone identify this military uniform?
- 📝 Identify male uniform 1860-80 north Central Europe single breast trouser boot round cap
- 📝 What is this military uniform from the 1870s?
- 📝 How to identify this probably French Military uniform?
- 📝 Can anyone help identify this uniform jacket?
- 📝 Can anyone identify what uniform this child soldier from Switzerland c1870 is wearing?
- 📝 Can anybody help identify this uniform ? Circa WW1
- 📝 Identify uniform worn in photograph
- 📝 Can anyone help identify this French military uniform?