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Question:My father began in riding with Gen. Pershing before WWI searching for the bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico then shipped to France with General Pershing in the American Forces in early WWI.

After he returned, he joined the Veteran's of Foreign Wars and received a lot of care at the Buffalo VA Hospital. Where might there be some records?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: My father began in riding with Gen. Pershing before WWI searching for the bandit Pancho Villa in Mexico then shipped to France with General Pershing in the American Forces in early WWI.

After he returned, he joined the Veteran's of Foreign Wars and received a lot of care at the Buffalo VA Hospital. Where might there be some records?

My grandfather served with Pershing in France. Ancestry.com has tons of military records -- I got a free promo when they first released these on the net, and found his WWI army registration papers as well as those of his two brothers.

You might to well to check out http://www.archives.gov/veterans/militar...
first.

Happy hunting.

Every record on him would have been sent to the National Archives Military Personnel Records Center for safekeeping. You can start here: http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/militar...

They will know what he did every step of his miltary career and every place he served, every battle he saw, and every medal he was ever awarded.