A discipline of unclaimed World Battle I medals was current in Kendall County, and now authorities are working to guarantee that the medals attain the households of the earlier heroes.

Kendall County Circuit Court docket docket Clerk Matthew Prochaska acknowledged he found the medal whereas working to digitize courtroom data from the 20th century. The medal was issued by the Kendall County Charge in 1919 to all county veterans who served in World Battle I.

“Whereas it is commonplace for cherished military service honors to be boxed and forgotten as generations cross, this may be very unusual for medals to remain in courtroom data of their genuine packaging,” Prochaska acknowledged in an announcement. rice space.

Information current that the medal was provided to veterans or their households on September 25, 1919, all through a celebratory picnic on the Outdated Kendall County Courthouse in Yorkville.

The unclaimed medals have been supposed for the subsequent World Battle I veterans: Andrew Berkland, Paul Caniff, Harold R. Heap, Harry Holverson, William B. Johnson, Harvey B. L. Nelson, Chauncey I. Pequoy, Louis A. Sears, Louis P. Schultz, Arthur Seby, Louis H. Steward.

Prochaska impressed residents to go searching the itemizing to see if they could acknowledge the title, and his office labored with the Kendall County Veterans Assist Charge and native historic societies to find out veteran households. He acknowledged he was serving to to look out

“Collectively we’re in a position to convey these medals once more to the heroes that gained them,” Prochaska acknowledged. “The Office of the Circuit, as always, thanked America’s veterans for his or her service to our nation.”

Kendall County Board Chairman Matt Kellogg acknowledged the board wanted to publicly or privately award the medals to households.

Veteran descendants should contact the Kendall County Circuit Clerk at 630-553-4183 or e-mail web_Email_Circuit_Clerk@kendallcountyil.gov by June 30.

Unclaimed medals are turned over to the Illinois Division of Treasury’s Unclaimed Property Division, whose office assists in reuniting medals with veterans or their households.

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