TALBOT COUNTY, GA - MILITARY - WWI - Evans Alonza Blythe Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles grmiles1@bellsouth.net Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/talbot.htm Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm Certificate in Lieu of Lost or Destroyed Discharge Certificate (Cut of the American Eagle) To All Whom It May Concern: Know ye, that Evans Alonza Blythe 2651256 a Sergeant of 39th Company, 10th Training Battalion, 157th Depot Brigade, United States Army, who was inducted on 26 April 1918 at Talbotton, Georgia to serve for the period of the emergency was Honorably Discharged from the service of the United States on 18 December 1918, by reason of demobilization. At induction gave age and place of birth as: 23 years, 2 months, Box Springs, Georgia. Character: Excellent Given at the War Department, Washington D.C., on 24 March 1945 By authority of the Secretary of War: J.A. Ulio Major General The Adjutant General (Official Seal Affixed) This certificate is given under the provision 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, or other allowances, or as evidence in any other case”. Note - This certificate is issued from the Office of the Adjutant General of the Army without erasure. Any additions, alterations, or erasure made thereon is unauthorized. Filed for record at 9:00 am March 28th 1945 Recorded March 28, 1945 J.W. Trussell, Clerk