button

Item

Title

button

Description

WWI brass button with raised image of two canons crossed in an "x".Button believed to belong to French Artillery and could have been acquired by Jacob E. Mott during service time in France during WWI.

Identifier

011.010.013

Format

Provenance

2nd Lt. Jacob E. Mott trained as an observer at the School of Military Aeronautics in 1917. On August 21 he was assigned to No. 21 Squadron RFC with two Corps on the Ypres France line. killed in action on 23 December 1917.

Abstract

Fair