Peyton C. March Victory Button Circular - November 25, 1919
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NOTE: YOU SHOULD APPLY TO THE SUPPLY OFFICER OF THE NEAREST MILITARY POST, CAMP OR STATION, INCLUDING A RECRUITING STATION, FOR THE VICTORY BUTTON. (Cir. 528) WAR DEPARTMENT Washington, November 25, 1919. Circular No. 528 AWARD OF VICTORY BUTTON TO CONTRACT SURGEONS -- AMENDMENT TO CIRCULAR NO. 187, WAR DEPARTMENT, 1919. Paragraph 1, Circular No. 187, War Department, 1919, as amended by Circular No. 206, War Department, 1919, is further amended to read as follows: 1. A lapel button to be known as the Victory button, for wear on civilian clothes, will be issued to all officers, contract surgeons, enlisted men, field clerks, and members of the Army Nurse Corps, who served on active duty in the Army of the United States, at any time between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and whose service was honorable. The button will be silver for those wounded in action and bronze for all others. (421.7 A. G. O.) By order of the Secretary of War: PEYTON C. MARCH General, Chief of Staff Official: P. C. Harris The Adjutant General F-321
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| Title | Peyton C. March Victory Button Circular - November 25, 1919 |
| Creator | March, Peyton C. |
| Source | March, Peyton C. Victory Button Circular. 25 November 1919. Leonard, Esther, Dr. Papers (1914-1919). A1814. Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Missouri. |
| Description | Secretary of War Peyton C. March sent this circular in regards to awarding the victory button to contract surgeons. Dr. Esther E. Leonard served as a contract surgeon during World War I at the U.S. Army General Hospital No. 1 in New York City and at an evacuation hospital in Vichy, France. |
| Subject LCSH | World War, 1914-1918; United States. Army. Sanitary Corps; World War, 1914-1918--Medical care--United States; World War, 1914-1918--Women; World War, 1914-1918--Medals |
| Subject Local | WWI; World War I |
| Site Accession Number | A1814 |
| Contributing Institution | Missouri History Museum |
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| Date Original | November 25, 1919 |
| Language | English |