Grouping includes two knives, assorted leather/canvas military gear, art, a pennant commemorating service on the Mexican Border in 1916, Grand Army of the Republic medals, a "USS Texas Rangers" badge, military medals and pins, and a silver service tray inscribed to a Major E.F. Ely by the Finance Officer of Fort McPherson in 1934. Records indicate Ely is Edwin F. Ely of the Quartermaster Corps, a veteran of the "Polar Bear Expedition" to intervene in the Russian Civil War.