Military War Medals

On Ancestry.com

Ron F. asked “How can you find out about medals … earned during the wars?” As we talked about during the webinar, soldiers and sailors who served in the various wars have service files and those service files should be the first place you go to in order to find out what medals were earned.  Before World War I, service file records are stored at the National Archives in Washington, DC.  For later wars, the service files are at the National Military Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO.  If you need a replacement for a medal that was earned, but later lost, you can find helpful information here. [Ancestry.com Blog]

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