here is the ring that I cherish more than any I have ever found..

[Magyar]

some of you may have seen this post on another forum..but for those who did not I would like to show you the pics

This is a 10 K gold WW1 ring that I found in the ocean floor this past summer..I was in about 3 feet of water at the time

This is a ring from the 35th Battallion-12th Division ( Also known as the "Plymouth Division")

The men were stationed in Fort Deven's , Mass. from August 1918 to January 1919.

They were supposed to be deployed to France, but an outbreak of Influenza occurred and they never made it overseas

Their Commanding officer was the great -great uncle of Sen . John McCain.

I have the original roster book ( got it on e-bay)...

Thanks for looking at my "find of a lifetime"

 

[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[Ed SW Fla]

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[Magyar]

I don't know who Alvin Yorks is.....please advise...never heard of him.

There are no initials stamped in it so I can't trace the owner..or owner's family

I checked with "Homers Boston", but they don't keep records that far back....too bad .

 

[Craig in Alabama]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[General Ray]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

[size=large]Alvin York was a conscientious objector who tried to get out of service in WW1 because of his religious convictions (there's a great movie you can rent called "Sergeant York" starring Gary Cooper on the life of York. I highly recommend it ). On the morning of 8th October, 1918, American forces were held up by intense machine-gun fire from a wooded slope on the edge of the Argonne Forest. A patrol was sent out to silence these guns, but ran into heavy fire and lost half its strength. At that time a Corporal, Alvin York found himself in charge of 7 other soldiers, the rest of his squad and commanding officer had been killed by machine gun fire. Surrounded by the enemy, York ordered his men to stay under cover. Armed with a US Enfield Model 1917 rifle and a Colt Model 1911 .45 pistol, he set out alone to stop those machine guns from killing anymore of his men.
With his rifle, Corporal York started picking off the German machine gunners, with deadly accuracy until suddenly, a German officer led a bayonet charge against his position. Having exhausted his rifle ammunition at that point, York coolly drew his Colt pistol and dropped each of the advancing Germans, one by one. He then resumed fire at the machine gunners with his rifle and as the Maxim fire began to slacken, he called on the Germans to surrender. The German Major in command thought that he was facing many more Americans than York and his buddies, so he and about fifty troops surrendered to York.
Holding his pistol to the officer's head, Cpl. York marched the prisoners back towards American lines. As they did so, more and more Germans surrendered to them until by the time they reached Battalion HQ, York had collected 132 prisoners and only 7 of them!. Alvin York was promoted to sergeant and awarded the Medal of Honor, French Metal of Honor plus many other Allied decorations.
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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Magyar]

Vernon..thank you so very much for that extremely interesting information re: Alvin York.

I must get that video and watch it a few times...I LOVE history!!

I very much appreciate that you took the time to type all that info ..and also the photo..

Lorraine

 

[Butch in Colorado]

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[Vernon in Virginia~Formerly Alaska]

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[DGGR/NY]

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[dobbie]

thats a movie i will have to look for my hubby loves war history...i wonder if he has seen that one?

 

[Magyar]

Hank knew immediately about the war hero and the movie...he said he had seen it several times...now he wants to buy it for our collection.