National Order of Trench Rats NOTR Bolo Ties 50th Anniversary DAV Auxiliary for Sale

National Order of Trench Rats NOTR Bolo Ties 50th Anniversary DAV Auxiliary For Sale

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National Order of Trench Rats NOTR Bolo Ties 50th Anniversary DAV Auxiliary:
$29.99

National Order of Trench Rats NOTR Bolo Ties 50th Anniversary DAV Auxiliary. The ties will be shipped in a padded envelope with tracking through USPS.The National Order of Trench Rats was conceived by a group of disabled World War I veterans who were patients in the United States Public Health Service Hospital No. 54 located at Arrowhead Springs, California. Because of the shortage of beds following WWI, this hospital, like many others, had been converted out of a building formerly used for other purposes. This particular building in which the hospital was housed had been a well known hotel located on the side of the mountain about seven miles from the city of San Bernardino. The name \"Trench Rats\" was adopted as it is symbolic of the rats which the World War I veterans encountered in the trenches in France. Some of the patients were members of the Los Angeles Chapter of the DAV. The hospital was isolated and there were no activities for the patients to pass the time, the majority of whom were ambulatory. A few members of this DAV Chapter conceived the idea of organizing a group of members as a fraternal society and devised an initiation ceremony for fun and amusement which invited only those DAV members who were most active in their Chapter. As a result of this, most of the patients became members of the DAV and its delegates who went to the National Convention in Salt Lake City in 1924 were able to get the N.O.T.R. officially recognized as an Auxiliary of the DAV. In the beginning, the N.O.T.R. was a secret, fraternal and honor organization limiting its membership by selection only to those who show their devotion and meritorious service to the DAV and the welfare of the disabled veterans, his widow and orphans.