Original U.S. WWI 79th Division Engraved Purple Heart Medal Grouping to Austrian-Born Jew - Reported Missing in Meuse-Argonne - Morris L. Leschkowitz Japanese Uniforms Those familiar with Mosin-Nagants might

Those familiar with Mosin-Nagants might note that these are the same dimensions as the later Model 91/30 rifle used throughout the 20th century

Smith was born in 1896

the French were abolishing them

and often falls down

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Original U.S. WWI 79th Division Engraved Purple Heart Medal Grouping to Austrian-Born Jew - Reported Missing in Meuse-Argonne - Morris L. Leschkowitz Japanese Uniforms Those familiar with Mosin-Nagants mightOriginal Items. One of a Kind. This is the Purple Heart medal grouping of Private Morris Louis Leschkowitz, Company L, 316th Infantry Regiment, 79th Division, who was severely wounded in action on September 28th, 1918 during the Meuse Argonne Offensive. Leschkowitz was born in Galicia, Austria, in 1889, immigrating to the U. S. at a young age. From his Jewish Servicemans Questionnaire, we can see that he received a severe gunshot wound to the left