Wow - your grandfather and mine were likely in the same unit on the border - however my grand pappy lost a finger chasing Poncho - never deployed to Europe.
Good on your grandfather.
you gave me a nudge to chase my g’father’s military records.
I have photos of him in uniform with his brother-in-law.
I have photos of him in his western gear.
Family story is he was a cook on a wagon train.
I question some(a lot) of the family stories.
He was born in 1896, not sure how many wagon trains there were by then.
He was also real young to be chasin Villa in 1912 - he would have been 16.
As an aside.
I never held it against Hillary when she claimed her mom told her she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary.
Turns out, Sir Edmund climbed Mt. Everest years after she was born.
If Hillary was telling the truth about the story, who fact checks their mom?
I gave her the benefit of the doubt, as I know how the stories in my own family got discombobulated.
The stories of my dad’s service during WW2 were way wrong as I recently chased and got some of his service records.
If i run across anything, I’ll post back here.
Thanks for the history lesson.