> > We didn't number them until after WWI?
>
>Well I wasn't actually around then, but that's what I've heard...
>
> >I just spent a gob of cash on eBay for a medal awarded to my grand pappy
>and it's marked "to Jeb Newton for
>his service in World War 1" so I'm pretty sure they knew it was the first
>world war.

It's worth asking when the medal was awarded.  If it was awarded after, say,
1938 or 1940, as the US government is wont to do occasionally, then it could
well say "World War I" on it.

Mike H.

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