Military related information:

Service Number -1390195

Third Platoon

Company L Muster Roll Nov-Dec 1917 Camp Logan, Houston Tx: Enlisted 18 Sep 1917. Listed as Private. Transferred from Company A 311 Supply Train to 33rd DIV per SO#69 Hdq 86th DIV dtd 7 Nov 1917; Assigned to and Joined Company L, 132nd INF 13 Nov 1917 per SO#60 Hdq 33rd DIV dtd 5 Nov 1917. - Muster Roll Jan-Feb 1918 Camp Logan, Houston Tx: Listed as Private First Class. Promoted to PFC per O#6 dtd 1 Jan 1918. - Muster Roll Mar-Apr 1918 Camp Logan, Houston Tx: Listed as Private First Class. - Muster Roll May-June 1918 A.E.F.: Listed as Private First Class. - Muster Roll July 1918 A.E.F.: Listed as Private First Class. - Muster Roll Aug 1918 A.E.F. France: Listed as Private First Class. - Muster Roll Sep 1918 A.E.F. France: Listed as Private First Class. - Muster Roll Oct 1918 A.E.F. France: Listed as Private First Class. - Company Roster November 1918 A.E.F.: Listed as Corporal. - Company Roster December 1918 A.E.F. Junglinster, Luxembourg: Listed as Corporal. - Company Roster January 1919 A.E.F. Gonderange, Luxembourg: Listed as Corporal. - Company Roster February 1919 A.E.F. Gonderange, Luxembourg: Listed as Corporal. - Company Roster March 1919 A.E.F. Gonderange, Luxembourg: Listed as Corporal. Detached Service at Division Eng. School 13 March 1919. - Company Roster April 1919 A.E.F.: Listed as Corporal. - Company Roster May 1919 Camp Grant, Illinois.: Discharged 31 May 1919. Listed as Corporal.

Cited for gallantry in action by General Pershing and General Bell. The Silver Star Medal is the United States’ third highest award exclusively for combat valor. The Silver Star was not established as an individual medal until July 19, 1932. At that time, veterans of World War I who had been cited for “gallantry in action” and awarded the “Citation Star” were, based upon specific criteria, authorized to request issuance of the Silver Star Medal in lieu of the earlier ribbon device.

Silver Star Medal	WWI Victory Medal with battle Clasps

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Death Information: Date; Age; Cause; Burial Location 

U.S., Social Security Death Index
Name: Lorenzo Martinez
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1892
Issue Year: Before 1951
Issue State: Illinois
Last Residence: 60613, Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death Date: Apr 1970

Cook County, Illinois Death Index
Name: Lorenzo Martinez
Death Date: 3 Apr 1970
Death Location: Cook County, IL
File Number: 610743
Archive Collection Name: Cook County Genealogy Records (Deaths)
Archive repository location: Chicago, IL
Archive repository name: Cook County Clerk

Miscellaneous:

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Illinois, Federal Naturalization Records
Name: Lorenzo Martinez
Declaration Age: 31
Record Type: Declaration
Birth Date: 20 Sep 1892
Birth Place: Mexico City, Mexico
Arrival Date: 27 Apr 1911
Arrival Place: New Orleans, LA
Declaration Date: 2 Jun 1924
Declaration Number: 33555
Court: District Court, Northern District, Illinois

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