United States. A Commission Document, To Lieutenant Billings, 3Rd Regiment, Massachusetts Militia 1818 certificate_of_authenticity Also on the 1st August

Also on the 1st August 1943 (the day of his death) he was awarded Frontflugspange Kampf in Bronze

self-respect of the nation

the type of which has been worn on the helmet beginning in 1842

A pair of Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (German Red Cross) pins

He returned to England and was drafted to the Submarine Depot Ship H

United States. A Commission Document, To Lieutenant Billings, 3Rd Regiment, Massachusetts Militia 1818 certificate_of_authenticity Also on the 1st AugustInside panel with the embossed Seal of the State of Massachusetts at the upper left, inscribed "HIS EXCELLENCY JOHN BROOKS, GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. To James Billings Gentleman, GREETING: YOU being elected on the eighteenth day of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, to be Lieutenant of a Company in the third Regiment of Infantry, in the first Brigade, and third Division, of the Militia of