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WWI Binoculars and French Cloggs - Property of a U.S. General

Currency:CAD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:150.00 CAD Estimated At:200.00 - 300.00 CAD
WWI Binoculars and French Cloggs - Property of a U.S. General
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A pair of U.S. Army Signal Corps field-glasses in original Bausch & Lomb leather case, written on outside bottom, "Major Ralph E. MacLeod / I.G.D. / 1931". Offered together with a pair of French wooden cloggs, very neatly inscribed on the bottom of one in ink: " Grace: - Pellouailes. / France / Sept. 17, 1918 / Ralph". Also included is the original sevice record of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts for MacLeod's first 30 years(!). In 1907, at 18 years of age, he joined the Massachuetts Naval Brigade before moving on to an extensive military career that included the 86th Co. of the C.A.C., World War I service in France as a Captain with the 71st Artillery (the Second battalion of which was based at Pellouailes in the finals weeks of the War), and then as Lieutenant-Colonel of the I.G.D., where the report has him listed as "still in service" as of March, 1939. Remarkably, his sevice would continue, as a later family obituary confirms his retirement with the rank of General. A most interesting trio of artifacts, worthy of some further research.