USMC Good Conduct Medal, “Joseph R. Colle, 1911-1915”

Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, hand-engraved “No.5716/Joseph R. Colle/1st Enlistment/1911-1915″. Corrosion around the hole for the suspension loop.

Corporal Colle served aboard USS Texas. He served in the Army in World War I as part of the 332nd Infantry in Italy. Colle was born in 1888, died in 1963 and is buried in Canton, Ohio,