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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

#611
Filed: February 20, 1942, 8:00 o'clock A. M. Marjorie Downie Lenth
            

         County Recorder.

  by Arlene Nieman, Deputy

 

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

 

  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."
 
  Given at the WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., this fifteenth day of
February, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two
 

By authority of the Secretary of War:

 

  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
  Sailed from U. S. --------------------------
  Arrived at port on return to U.S.    -----------------
Character given on discharge: Excellent  
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.

 
 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond