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CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED
DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE
TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN:
KNOW YE, THAT
Harvey Gottachalk,
A. S. No. 4,817,952 a Private of Company, C, 87th Infantry United
States Army, who was inducted on the September 4, 1918 at
Elkader, Iowa; to serve for the period of the emergency, was
HONORABLY DISCHARGED from the service of the United States on
January 27, 1919 by reason of demobilization.
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Given at the
WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D.C., March 26, 1940
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By authority
of the Secretary of War: |
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E Shoawl
[name is difficult to read] |
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Major
General, The Adjutant General |
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This
Certificate is given under the provisions of the Act of
Congress approved |
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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.
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