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Great War Helmet, 1914-1918.

 

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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

#3929
Filed      February 2, A. D.  1941  at 1:10 P. M.

Majorie Downie Lenth                     Recorder.

Reference No.  
   

Issued in lieu of or destroyed certificate

DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

 

    Know ye, That   William E. Geuder, a Private     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 a 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 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".

N/L  5/2

 

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. 

 

discharges the person named herein from his present obligation to serve in the Army, it does not operate as a permanent bar to his subsequent entrance into the military service. Under Section 5 of the Act of May 18, 1917, all registered persons remain subject to the draft unless exempted or excused as in that Act provided. Therefore, this discharge does not exempt the holder from obedience to the process of Exemption Boards.

                              Given at Austin, Texas, this 7th day of August 1918.

  By Order of Colonel Newman.
  By order of 1st Lieut. Earl L. Rice
 
F. A. Crow
2nd Lt. Q. R. C.  Adjutant
 
     
 
#1067
 

Issued in lieu of or destroyed certificate

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

      

This is to Certify, That    Ray Zearley, National Army unassigned 1132,581  is hereby DISCHARGED   from the military service of the United States by reason of Surgeons Certificate of Disability form 1010 P. M. G. O. 3rd 2nd dated August 7th, 1918, Defective Vision Right Eye 20/50 Left Eye 20/70 Old Injury Left Hip.

 

          Said Ray Zearley was inducted into the service from the jurisdiction of the Local Board for Clayton County, Adjutant General, State of Iowa, on the 23rd day of July, 1918.

 

         While this certificate discharges the person named herein from his present obligation to serve in the Army, it does not operate as a permanent bar to his subsequent entrance into the military service. Under Section 5 of the Act of May 18, 1917, all registered persons remain subject to the draft unless exempted or excused as in that Act provided. Therefore, this discharge does not exempt the holder from obedience to the process of Exemption Boards.

                              Given at Austin, Texas, this 7th day of August 1918.

  By Order of Colonel Newman.
  By order of 1st Lieut. Earl L. Rice
 
F. A. Crow
2nd Lt. Q. R. C.  Adjutant
 
     
 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond