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World War I certificate date?
« on: Wednesday 27 November 19 17:05 GMT (UK) »
The attached document was given to my g-grandmother, Jennie Jeffrey, thanking her for her volunteering services for the Red Cross. Does anyone have an idea of when this document would've been given to her? Thanks SO much!

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Re: World War I certificate date?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 18:15 GMT (UK) »
Woodrow Wilson was president from 1913-1921, so some time within then.  Maybe if someone can read the other names, they could be Googled.

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Re: World War I certificate date?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 18:31 GMT (UK) »
Thanks. Yeah, I was trying to read the other names, and haven't been successful. She lived in Detroit, MI during this time, and her son, my grandfather served in France from June 1918 - June 1920.

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Re: World War I certificate date?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 18:44 GMT (UK) »
G D Pope appears to have been chairman of the Detroit Chapter of RedCross from about 1918. I would guess this was presented at, or shortly after, the cessation of hostilities - I e 1918/1919.

Henry P Davison was chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross .

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« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 18:52 GMT (UK) »
The signature above Chairman of War Council looks like Garrison.
Lindley Miller Garrison was Secretary of War from March 5, 1913 until February 10, 1916.


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Re: World War I certificate date?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 20:28 GMT (UK) »
The USA entered WWI on 6 April 1917.

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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 21:10 GMT (UK) »
The American Red Cross dispatched The Mercy Ship to Europe within weeks of the outbreak of war in 1914.

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Re: World War I certificate date?
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 27 November 19 21:48 GMT (UK) »
The recipient of the cert below served from April 1917 to March 1919:

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 28 November 19 21:42 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Brentor boy on Wednesday 27 November 19 18:44 GMT (UK)
Henry P Davison was chairman of the War Council of the American Red Cross .

"In May 1917, President Wilson appointed a War Council to direct the Red Cross and selected Henry P. Davison, a successful New York banker, as the council’s volunteer chairman."

https://www.redcross.org/content/dam/redcross/National/history-wwi.pdf

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Cooper Wood was secretary of the Detroit chapter of the Red Cross when he registered for the draft September 12, 1918.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K6NK-Y49

and in 1921 when he was living at the University Club in Detroit as listed in the City Directory.

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