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H.R. Brandt is to finally receive his honor from the French government, Los Angeles, 1932

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Title: H.R. Brandt is to finally receive his honor from the French government, Los Angeles, 1932
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Civil service commissioner H.R. Brandt received the Medal of Honor from the French government, which has been looking for him for the past 12 years to bestow the medal to him. Brandt was a member of the Lost Battalion during World War I, and he will also be receiving the Purple Heart Medal from the American government.
Photograph appears with the article, "France Honors 'Lost' Veteran," Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct 1932: A3.
Brandt is a man with a thin mustache. He sits in front of a piano, a curtained window and framed photographs can be seen on the wallpapered wall behind him.
Text from newspaper caption: H. R. Brandt
Text from negative sleeve: BRANDT, H.R. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
Handwritten on negative: H.R. Brandt
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_1422
ark:/21198/zz002dbw5p
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Veterans--American
Brandt, H.R
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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