Hey Genies! Want some practice? Trench Art Name

Captain F.L. Hicks was certainly in France during WWI, and was almost certainly in the US Army or USMC. I began looking thru graves but didn’t get too far before bedtime. The case is from a German 77mm field gun. It was made in August 1917 and the brass alloy is 67% copper.

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I found a Frederick L Hicks, Captain USMC, listed in the 1920 edition of the Navy and USMC Registry Book. But without further info - age, birthplace, etc. that is as far as I could get. I don't have the Fold3 access that would yield more results.

 

Thanks, may be the one.

 

Here’s the only good candidate I found on the grave site using Bakers’ name as input. An obit for this person should tell if he’s our Marine.

 

This particular Frederick L. was in the US Navy:

 

Thx, so that eliminates him, looking at that vet card, this Particular vet could never have been a captain. Back to looking for Bakers’ USMC Captain.

 

The Register says he resigned his commission on 17 June 1919.