Great War 37th Division Silver Star group
Sergeant Ralph E. Faust served with Co. A, 135th MGBN, 37th Division and hailed from Youngstown, Ohio. Faust joined the Ohio National Guard June 8, 1915. He was part of Company A, 10th Infantry that became Company A of the 135th Machine Gun Battalion when they were Federalized and was discharged on April 12, 1919 as a Sergeant. He had Mexican Border service and was overseas with the AEF from June 15, 1918 until March 25, 1919.

This group includes his officially engraved Silver Star marked BBB & Co, Phila, and numbered 5554 wotj box, his 3 bar WW1 Victory Medal with Ypres-Lys, Meuse Argonne and Defensive Sector bars, Mexican Border medal # 35508 with its box marked "The Joseph Meyer Company 8-29-28 attributed to Faust, his WW1 Mahoning County, Ohio service medal, a Verdun medal, and part of the shipping box for the Silver Star.  Research verifies his award, he did not earn a Purple Heart.
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