CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED
DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE
TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN:
KNOW YE, THAT
John P. Farrell,
Army Serial No. 4,004,179 a Private of Fourth Company, First
Battalion, One Hundred Sixty-Third Depot Brigade U. S. Army, who
was inducted on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand nine
hundred and eighteen, at Elkader, Iowa; to serve for the period
of the emergency, was Honorably Discharged from the service of
the United States on the twenty first day of December one
thousand nine hundred and eighteen by reason of demobilization
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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 discharged officers or enlisted men or their
widows, upon evidence that the original discharge
certificate has been lost or destroyed, and upon the
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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Given at the
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., this fifteenth day of
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February,
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two |
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By authority
of the Secretary of War: |
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John A.
Klein Adjutant General |
Transcript from Record of
Service
Prior Service:
None |
Battles engagements, expeditions:
None |
Wounds
received in action: None |
Decorations, service medals, citations,
awarded: None |
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Sailed from U. S.
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Arrived at port on return to U.S.
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Character given on discharge:
Excellent |
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Certificate given in Lieu of Lost or
Destroyed Certificate previously issued in this case:
None |
Remarks: None |
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.
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