Before the 1st Division had official divisional insignia, officers wore French-made armbands (called brassards) with the numeral ‘1’ on them. Major Paul Ransom, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, wore this brassard while serving as Brigade Machine Officer on the 1st Brigade staff. The archival photo shows Colonel G. Marshall wearing a very similar brassard.
Brassard
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Unit2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Date1918
ConflictWorld War I
NationalityAmerican
RightsFirst Division Museum
Identifier1968.16.2
On-DisplayYes
Citation"Brassard." First Division Museum. Accessed April 24, 2024, https://www.fdmuseum.org/collections/brassard/.
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