Following his military service Thomas Anson Knowlton became the proprieter of mills for the manufacture of kindling-wood for the Boston market
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making it one of the oldest such societies and was awarded for "diligent or assiduous" service
Franz Joseph Jubilee Medal 1908 for Foreigners - Officer’s issue in silver
Germany, Wehrmacht. A 1939 Iron Cross Ii Class, By Wilhelm Deumer United Republic of Following his military service Thomas(Eisernes Kreuz 1939 II. Klasse). Reinstituted 1 September 1939. (1939 1945 issue). Constructed of iron and silver, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte with a blackened magnetic iron core within a ribbed silver frame, the obverse with a central mobile swastika, the six oclock arm with a reinstitution date of 1939, the reverse six oclock arm with an initial institution date of 1813, the suspension loop