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Item

Title

button

Description

brass button from WWI military uniform with the raised image of the British Coat of Arms. Inscription on rear surface reads "Buttons Limited Birmingham"

Identifier

011.010.014

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