Silly question, but took the records off of his campaign stars, Clasps and mendals form that was sent with his medals. i have just looked at them all and realised that I have made a boob!! there is only a tick next to the 1st army under the Clasp or emblem (if awarded). In the box are all the medals in their envelopes,tow of them had not been opened and one of them was the Star, with no clasp, so i think he didn't get a clasp with it.
Also on another tack I have been looking at the ellis Island passenger site and saw a lot of SCARINGI families are registered as sailing from Italy to New York. Looking at the portraits the signature is most likely to be F Scaringi. the writing and numbers looks very much as if the person was of italian extraction. i know this as I was once married to a Spaniard and their wrting of letters andnumbers is very different to our writing.
I will try to make time tomorrow to scan these pictures and see if I can make them smaller and put them on this site. Who knows, someone might recognise them as one of their ancestors.
regards
terrri
