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SERVICA
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S
CANRED
SERVICE BADGE
Eligibility:
Women, paid or volunteer, who gave service over the
requisite period of time, and had received service
certificates thereby became eligible for the badge.
This badge was also awarded to organizations which
received service certificates. Ribbons with inter-
woven white stripes denoted longer periods of service.
(See following page.)
Placements
On civilian clothes only. The badge may be worn as a
pin, without the ribbon, but the ribbon, in accordance
with a request of the War Department, cannot be worn
without the badge.
Cost: $1.00
4/6/1917 - 11/11/1919
Code SAF525-IBM 308375
Obtained: From national headquarters, Bureau of Stores,
for workers at national headquarters or division
offices. Chapters obtained the badges from the division,
Departments of Stores, and sold them to certificate
holders or awarded the badges to them, provided no por-
tion of the war fund was so used.
Replacements now obtained through Office of Insignia,
Uniforms, and Awards at national headquarters upon presen-
tation of service certificates or facsimile of them when the
service record is not available.
Reference: Minutes, Committee on Awards, 1918-1921; letters,
general manager, to division managers, November 25, 1918,
January 21, 1919, August 9, 1919, and November 8, 1919.
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