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Letters and Medals to "Honorary Colonel" Shirley Temple of Illinois 108th Medical Regiment
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12" (30 cm.) x 10" leather folio. A soft leather folio with gold leaf edging and inscription "Colonel Shirley Temple" folds open to blue velvet lined interior containing a number of brass and silver buttons, badges and pins, among which is the Medal of the 108th Medical Regiment. Included is a document dated April 6, 1938 naming Shirley Temple as an Honorary Colonel, as well as a letter of March 15, 1938 noting "Colonel Shirley Temple having, far beyond the call of duty, given to the world more hours of pleasure than any other human since the dawn of history, has been decorated with the medal of the 108th Medical Regiment..."