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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

  

#0092
Filed      January 8th, 1941  at 10:30 A. M.

Majorie Downie Lenth                    

Reference No. Recorder.

"Certificate in Lieu of Lost or Destroyed"

"DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE"

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

    Know ye, That   Elmer G. Hultgren a Private     A.S. No.  4,818,387

Private First Class of Medical Department, Bast Hospital #65, United States Army

who was inducted on September 4, 1918  at Elkader, Iowa to serve for a period of the emergency was HONORABLY DISCHARGED  from the service of the United States on September 25, 1919  by reason of Demobilization.

 

Character  - Excellent

Given at the WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.  on April 8th 1940.
BY AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR:
    E. SHAAMS
     

Major General

     

The Adjutant General

 

   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 of their widows, upon evidence that the original discharge certificate had been lost or destroyed, and upon the condition imposed by said Act that this certificate "shall be accepted as a voucher for the payment of any claim against the United States for pay, bounty, other allowances, or as evidence in any other case".

 

Notice-- 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, 1938  
FTL 4/3  
  U. S. Government Printing Office     3-2646a
   

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond