A 1st Battalion Machine Gun Corps soldier’s pass from September 22, 1919 granted the recipient (“Pvt. S. Wolfe [sic]) leave from their quarters to travel to Buttevant, a small village in Ireland that housed a military barracks. The date coincides with the early stages of the Irish War for Independence. Louis Ockrim, one of Sam Woolf's business colleagues, said that Sam "never got his medal" for his prior heroism in World War I because he supposedly deserted the British Army and joined Irish forces at some point during the Irish War for Independence.
