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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

#3338
Filed: Nov. 23, 1942, at 1 P. M. Bertha L. Stoops
            

         County Recorder.

   

 

CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED

DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

 

 

TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN:

KNOW YE, THAT

 

        Verni J. Schultz, Army Serial No. 4817679 a Private of Quartermaster Corps, United State Army, who was inducted on the fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, at Elkader, Iowa; to serve for the period of the emergency, was Honorably Discharged from the service of the United States on the twenty-sixth day of September one thousand nine hundred and nineteen by reason of demobilization

 

   
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 fourteenth day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two

By authority of the Secretary of War:

 

  T. Hughes,  Adjutant General
True extract certified by me on November 21 1932 for the purpose of obtaining Victory Medal by Mail.
H. F. Haltmeyer, Adj. Pocket City
Post 267 A. L.
 

Transcript from Record of Service

Prior Service: None Battles engagements, expeditions: None
Wounds received in action: None Decorations, service medals, citations, awarded: None
rrived at port on return to U.S.    ----------- Sailed from U. S. --------------------------
Character given on discharge: Excellent  
Certificate given in Lieu of Lost or Destroyed Certificate previously issued in this case: None
Remarks: None

 

 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.

 
Recorded in the Historian's Book Pocket City Post #267 A. L. McGregor. Ia.
H. F. Haltmeyer, Adj:
 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond