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Original U.S. WWI Gold Star Mothers Pilgrimage Named Medal and Documents Grouping British Machine Guns 1944 General Matthew Ridgway theOriginal Items: One of a kind Set. In 1931 Mrs. Nellie Ruth Parker made the journey to France from her home in Denver, Colorado to visit the grave of her son who we believe was a United States Marine named Harry W. Gruver (117170) who was born in 1893. During the 1920s, the Gold Star Mothers' Association lobbied for a federally sponsored pilgrimage to Europe for mothers with sons buried overseas. Although many of the women who belonged to the