Great War Helmet, 1914-1918.

 

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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

 

"DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE"

#2548
Filed      July 14th, 1930 at 2:00 p.m.

Verna M. O'Connor                      Recorder.

Reference No.  

 

Certificate in Lieu of Lost or Destroyed

DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, THAT

 

GUY R. BURD     A. S. N. 4,814,877    a Private First Class of Company A, 55th Machine Gun Battalion,

United States Army, who was inducted on September 5th, 1918 at Waterloo, Iowa to serve for the period of the emergency was HONORABLY DISCHARGED from the service of the United States on June 2, 1919, by reason of demobilization  Character ---- Excellent ----

 

               Given at the War Department, Washington, D. C., on May 12, 1936.

 

               BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:

     
 

E. T. Cauley

    Major General,

         The Adjutant General.

 

 

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             This Certificate is given under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, "to authorize the Secretary of War to furnish certificates in lieu of lost or destroyed discharges" to honorably discharge officers or enlisted men or their widows, upon evidence that the original discharge certificate has been lost or destroyed, and upon condition imposed by said Act that this certificate "shall not be accepted as a voucher for the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, or other allowances, or as evidence in any other case."

 

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           NOTE: -- This certificate is issued from the office of The Adjutant General of the Army without erasure. Any addition, alteration, or erasure made thereon is unauthorized 

 

W. D., A. G. O. Form No. 0150-2

         April 1, 1936.

                 jh  7/3

U. S. Government Printing Office

 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond