Massachusetts. Long Service, “Service in War”

Massachusetts. Long Service Medal, numbered “3556”, with suspension bar “Nine Years” and bar “Service in War”.

Issued in 1930 to 2Lt Hector A. Bousquet, 181st Infantry. Bousquet served in World War I with the Chemical Warfare Service. A major in World War II, he died on active duty on 7 January 1945. He was from Worcester, Massachusetts.