Great War Helmet, 1914-1918.

 

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Naval Discharge

SAILOR'S FORM

 

 

DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

Certificate in lieu of lost or destroyed Discharge Certificate

#2135
Filed December 15, 1921

Clara L. Curtis Otis             Recorder.

Reference No.           -----------------------------------------  

 

U.S. NAVEL TRAINING STATION

Great Lakes, Illinois

July 23, 1919

 

To All Whom it May Concern: Know ye, That Herman S. Reinhardt, a private 4006157 of Company C. Convalescent Center, Camp Dodge, Iowa United States Army, who was enlisted on the twenty-sixth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, to serve for period of the emergency was discharged from the service of the United States on the third day of February, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen by reason of telegram A. G. O., Nov. 15, 1918. Character, very good.

 

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 twenty-eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen.

 

BY AUTHORITY of the SECRETARY of WAR

 

  J. Erwin, Col. Infantry  
  Act'g Adjutant General.  
 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond