ORIGINAL WWI U.S.ARMY HONORABLE DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE (AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER)

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ORIGINAL WWI U.S.ARMY HONORABLE DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE (AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER)
RARELY SEEN ORIGINAL WWI U.S. ARMY HONORABLE DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN SOLDIER; PRIVATE 1st CLASS FRANK McGHEE 'S.  HIS WWI U.S. ARMY HONORABLE DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE LISTS HIM AS BROWN COMPLEXION AND HIS REGISTRATION CARD LISTS HIS RACE AS AFRICAN. (REGISTRATION CARD NOT INCLUDED IN THIS LISTING AND IS FOR REFERENCE ONLY.) INTERESTING TO NOTE THERE ARE 2 ERRORS IN THE WRITING OF THE HONORABLE DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE BY THE 46th INFANTRY DIVISION CLERK. FIRST HIS NAME IS MIS-SPELLED FRANK McGHEE 4 TIMES (THEY SPELLED IT FRANK McGEE). SECOND THEY WROTE ENLISTED OR INDUCTED DATE AS NOV. 29,191
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. (IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN NOV. 29,191
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SIGNED IN FOUNTAIN PEN BY: COLONEL G.H.BLANKENSHIP COMMANDING * 46th INFANTRY DIVISION and LT. EDWARD HANNS? * 46th INFANTRY DIVISION.
SIGNED BY FRANK McGHEE by
HIS " X " MARK
ON SIDE TWO NEXT TO HIS NAME AT THE BOTTOM. (please see picture)
RECIPIENT:
WORLD WAR I
U.S.ARMY
PRIVATE 1st CLASS FRANK McGHEE
SEVICE NUMBER 1810388
LABORER
BROWN EYES,BLACK HAIR,BROWN COMPLEXION
HEIGHT 5 FOOT 6 INCHES
ENLISTED NOVEMBER 29th 1917  GREENVILLE , TENNESSEE
Co. B  324th SERVICE BATTALION QUARTER MASTER CORPS
BORN APRIL 27,1893
DIED   APRIL 18,1970
BORN : TATE STATION, GRANGER COUNTY, TENNESSEE
SERVED IN A.E.F. ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE  JULY 10,1918 to JULY 10,1919
DISCHARGED FORT OGLETHORPE GEORGIA JULY 12,1919
FLAT UNFOLDED DIMENSIONS: 8 1/4" X 10 3/4"
MEDIUM WEIGHT CREAM COLOR PAPER WATERMARKED WITH " GREAT SEAL of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA "
CONDITION IS VERY FINE OVERALL WITH HANDLING AND NORMAL FOLD LINES. PERIOD FILE HOLES AT THE TOP AND AND FRONT LEFT EDGES. SOME LIGHT PAPER AGE TONING AND HANDLING OVERALL. PAPER IS STILL SUPPLE AND FLEXIBLE. SOME VERY SMALL PAPER WEAR THROUGH SPOTS ON CROSSOVERS AND SOME VERY TINY SPLITS AT THE VERY EDGES ON SOME OF THE FOLD LINES. NO REPAIRS.
(please see pictures)
PLEASE SEE MY 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK AND BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.
* The 46th Infantry was constituted in May 1917 as a part of the General Mobilization for World War 1. The 46th was assigned to the 9th Division just at the end of the war. The unit was inactivated November, 1921.