Jackson County IA Archives Military Records.....Swift, Frederick 
 Medical Corps
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F. J. Swifft Promoted Lt. Colonel


    Jackson Sentinel, Aug. 3, 1926

    MAYOR F. J. SWIFT PROMOTED TO RANK OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL

    In 1917, Dr. F. J. Swift entered the service during the world war and was
commissioned 1st Lieutenant serving in such capacity four fourteen months, when
he was appointed to the captaincy in the Medical Corps. In May, 1919, while
serving in France, the captain's bar were replaced by a gold leaf, the insignia
of a major, which rank he held when he mustered out of active war service at the
end of the war. Major Swift retained his rank upon the establishment of the
Reserve Corps. He later attended military school of instruction at Fort
Snelling, Minnesota and recently passed the test to receive his commission as
Lieutenant Colonel, a rank that many covet, but few attain. 



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