u/treyyert3

Greetings

I’m researching my great-grandfather, Claude Allen Morrison (USMC, 4607845), who enlisted in April 1918 from Sherman, Texas. His records show service with Headquarters Company, 17th Regiment at Quantico, Company D, 6th Separate Battalion, and later the 80th Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines. His campaign credits include Champagne, Meuse-Argonne, Crossing the Meuse River, and Army of Occupation, and he received the Meuse-Argonne clasp and Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. I’ve attached his service card and muster roll entries. Can anyone help determine:

Whether the Company D, 6th Separate Battalion assignment indicates service with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion?

When he transferred into the 80th Company?

Whether there’s evidence he would have qualified to wear the French Fourragère?

Where Field Hospital 23 and Evacuation Hospital 16 were located in June 1919?

I’m also building a shadow box and trying to recreate his service as accurately as possible—medals, insignia, uniform details, unit patch/Indianhead insignia, Fourragère if appropriate, and anything specific to an enlisted Marine in the 6th Marines/4th Brigade in 1918–1919. Any guidance on what would be historically correct to include, and what I should avoid adding without proof, would be appreciated.

Greetings

I’m researching my great-grandfather, Claude Allen Morrison (USMC, 4607845), who enlisted in April 1918 from Sherman, Texas. His records show service with Headquarters Company, 17th Regiment at Quantico, Company D, 6th Separate Battalion, and later the 80th Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines. His campaign credits include Champagne, Meuse-Argonne, Crossing the Meuse River, and Army of Occupation, and he received the Meuse-Argonne clasp and Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. I’ve attached his service card and muster roll entries. Can anyone help determine:

Whether the Company D, 6th Separate Battalion assignment indicates service with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion?

When he transferred into the 80th Company?

Whether there’s evidence he would have qualified to wear the French Fourragère?

Where Field Hospital 23 and Evacuation Hospital 16 were located in June 1919?

I’m also building a shadow box and trying to recreate his service as accurately as possible—medals, insignia, uniform details, unit patch/Indianhead insignia, Fourragère if appropriate, and anything specific to an enlisted Marine in the 6th Marines/4th Brigade in 1918–1919. Any guidance on what would be historically correct to include, and what I should avoid adding without proof, would be appreciated.

Greetings

I’m researching my great-grandfather, Claude Allen Morrison (USMC, 4607845), who enlisted in April 1918 from Sherman, Texas. His records show service with Headquarters Company, 17th Regiment at Quantico, Company D, 6th Separate Battalion, and later the 80th Company, 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines. His campaign credits include Champagne, Meuse-Argonne, Crossing the Meuse River, and Army of Occupation, and he received the Meuse-Argonne clasp and Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal. I’ve attached his service card and muster roll entries. Can anyone help determine:

Whether the Company D, 6th Separate Battalion assignment indicates service with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion?

When he transferred into the 80th Company?

Whether there’s evidence he would have qualified to wear the French Fourragère?

Where Field Hospital 23 and Evacuation Hospital 16 were located in June 1919?

I’m also building a shadow box and trying to recreate his service as accurately as possible—medals, insignia, uniform details, unit patch/Indianhead insignia, Fourragère if appropriate, and anything specific to an enlisted Marine in the 6th Marines/4th Brigade in 1918–1919. Any guidance on what would be historically correct to include, and what I should avoid adding without proof, would be appreciated.