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Soldier's Discharge Record

SOLDIER'S FORM

 

#1157
Filed: March 14, A. D. 1942, 4:40 o'clock A. M. Marjorie Downie Lenth
            

         County Recorder.

   

 

CERTIFICATE IN LIEU OF LOST OR DESTROYED

DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE

 

TO ALL WHO, IT MAY CONCERN:

 
   

KNOW YE, THAT Wayne B. Smith, a Private #110695 1st cl.  of Aviation General Supply Depot and Concentration Camp, Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. UNITED STATES ARMY, who was enlisted on the Sixteenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, to serve for the period of the emergency, was DISCHARGED from the service of the United States on the twenty-ninth day of July one thousand nine hundred and eighteen to accept a commission.

  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 nineteen
 

By authority of the Secretary of War:

 

  I. Erwin     Adjutant General
 
 

 

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

~transcribed by Constance Diamond