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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

 

CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED

DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

#62
Filed: Jan. 9, 1923, 1:00 o'clock P. M. Clara L. Curtis Otis
            

         County Recorder.

   

 TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, THAT  Hamilton Flaucher, a Sergeant #845,202, of Company K, Twentieth Infantry, United States Army, who was enlisted on the twelfth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. to serve for the period of period of seven years, was Honorably Discharged from the service of the United States on the sixth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen by reason of Letter, W. D. Nov. 30, 1918, Character -- Excellent.

 

  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 29th day of April, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-two
 

By authority of the Secretary of War:

 

  M. J. O'Brien
    Adjutant General
 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond