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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

#2915
Name:  Grover Brandenburg Filed:  Oct 23, 1920
            

      Freda Katschkowsky       County Recorder.

 

HONORABLE DISCHARGE FROM THE UNITED STATES ARMY

To All Whom it May Concern:

THIS IS TO CERTIFY, That     Grover Brandenburg

#4006164  Pvt. Hdge. Co. 164th Infantry 41 Division.  (Cas. Det. #96-163 D. B.)

          

 

THE UNITED STATES ARMY, as a Testimonial of Honest and Faithful Service, is herby HONORABLY DISCHARGED from the military service of the UNITED STATES by reason of     Tel. Auth. W. D. Nov. 15, & Letter A. G. A. Nov. 30, 1918

 

Said     Grover Brandenburg was born in    Strawberry Point
in the State of    Iowa When enlisted he was    26 1/6     years of age

and by occupation a   Farmer

He had  Brown  eyes,     Dark  hair,     Dark  complexion, and was       5   feet     8 1/4  inches in height.

      Given under my hand at    Camp Dodge, Iowa

This    eleventh   day of     March,    one thousand nine hundred and     nineteen.

       
    George M. Davies  
    Major  Infantry, U. S. A.  
      Commanding.

 

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ENLISTMENT RECORD

 

Name     Grover Brandenburg Grade   Private
Enlisted, or Inducted,   July 25     1918, at  Elkader, Iowa
Serving in     First     enlistment period at date of discharge.
Prior service  none

 

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Noncommissioned officer   Never

Marksmanship, gunner qualification or rating     None

Horsemanship     not mounted

Battles, engagements, skirmishes, expeditions       A. E. F.

Decorations, Medals, Citations:    none

Knowledge of any vocation    Farmer

Wounds received in service    none

Physical condition when discharged     Good

Typhoid prophylaxis completed     Triple August 15, 1918

 

Paratyphoid prophylaxis completed    

Married or Single    Married

Character   Excellent

Remarks: No A. W. O. L. No absence under G. O. 31 W. D.  1912 or W. D. 45-1914.

              Service in France. Left U. S. Feb 8, 1919. Arrived U. S. Feb. 28, 1919

              Hdqs. Co. 164th Inf. 41st Division

              Entitled to travel pay.

 

  (Signature of Soldier)  Grover Brandenburg
       Thos. J. Thomsen
    Capt. Inf. U. S. A.
    Commanding  Cas. Det. #96 
   

163rd D. B.

 

 

~ source: Clayton County, Iowa Discharges. LDS microfilm #1516914 Item #6

~transcribed by Constance Diamond