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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

#2575
Filed: July 18th, 1936 at 2:00 P. M. Verna M. O'Connor
            

         County Recorder.

   

 ISSUED IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED CERTIFICATE

DISCHARGE FROM DRAFT

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Know Ye, That

          

Albert T. SCHMELZER, A. S. N. 3224262, a Private of Company F, 352nd Infantry, United States Army, who was inducted on May 27th 1918, at Elkader, Iowa; to serve for the period of The Emergency, was HONORABLY DISCHARGED from the service of the United States on June 14, 1919 by reason of demobilization.

 

Character -- Excellent

 

  Given at the WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C. on July 6th, 1936.  By Authority of the Secretary of War:
  E. T. Cauley
  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 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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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