Cuban Pacification 1900-1909
After my father's death in 1995, my mother gave me a box containing 5 military medals and a 6th very frayed ribbon. She said she knew nothing about them but that my father wanted me to have them. I continue to follow leads. At any rate, I had them framed to "current conservation standards." I thought someone might know something about them. My dad grew up in Freeport, and the family names were Winslow, Coffin, Woodman, and Irwin. I don't know anyone who fought in that war. Two of the medals bear the date 1899 and the inscription, "Philippine Insurrection." One medal has a palm tree and red and blue ribbon, the other has three soldiers and red, white, and blue ribbon.
One medal reads "Cuban Pacification." The ribbon is red, white, and blue on the sides with a wide band of olive green in the center. One medal is "for Service on the Mexican Border." It looks like a sheathed saber on a shield. That ribbon has a yellow center with equally wide green bands on the sides.
The other two medals are the distinguished service cross and a good conduct medal. The service cross had to be replaced as it was either lost or taken. The new medal is mounted on the very old, very frayed ribbon. I offer these comments mainly (no pun intended) for this wonderful site. My dad would have loved it.
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If all of those medals were awarded to the same person, he must have been a career U.S. Army soldier. The "Philippine Insurrection" medal was awarded for service in the Philippine Islands between February 4, 1899 and December 31, 1913. The Cuban Pacification medal was awarded to "Army officers and enlisted personnel who served with the Army of Cuban Pacification in Cuba between 6 October 1906 and 1 April 1909." And the Mexican Border Service Medal was awarded "for service on the Mexican border between May 9, 1916 and March 24, 1917 or with the Mexican Border Patrol between January 1, 1916 and April 6, 1917." And the Distinguished Service Cross was established in 1918.
The Distinguished Service Cross might be easiest to track. If it was awarded for service prior to World War I, there are less than 150 possible recipients. More than 5,000 World War I soldiers won the award. -
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