Service Record for Harry S. Truman

DRAFTED AUGUST 5, 1917 "Regular Army. Folunteer Army. regular Army Reserve. Enlisted Reserve Corps. mo. IOI National Guard, State of SERVICE RECORD OF Truman (Surname.) Harry S. (Christian naple.) Baty "F", (Company and regiment or arm or corps or department for which enlisted.) * Strike out words not applicable. INSTRUCTIONS. 1. Opening of record.-When a soldier is enlisted or reenlisted a service record on this form will be opened for him by the recruiting officer, who will fill out the Descriptive List, page 2, the Prior Service, and the first part of Current Enlistment, page 3. Other data called for by the printed headings or by these instructions will be supplied from time to time as occasion arises by the soldier's company or detachment commander, care being taken to make the record complete and to keep it up to date at all times. 2. Forwarding to first station.-Wher a soldier is sent from the recruit depot to a post, camp, or regiment, for assignment, the adjutant, or other designated officer, at the depot will fill out the first indorsement and turn theservice record over to the officer or noncommissioned officer in command of detachment of departing recruits; or, if no officer or noncommissioned officer be placed in command, the service record will be forwarded by mail to the proper commanding officer. 3. Transmission to company.- Tpon assignment of a soldier toa company, the post, camp, or regimental commander will transmit the service record to the commanding officer of the company to which he is assigned dotach- ing the report of assignment and forwarding same to The Adjutant General of the Army. 4. transferred or detached.-- soldier is transferred or detached from his company, the company commander will fill out the second indorse- ment and transmit the service record to the soldier's new commanding officer in the manner prescribed in paragraph 2, above, in the case of soldiers leav- grecruit depots. Subseguent indorsements will be filled out as the soldier's change ofstation or status requires, the original service record thus following the soldier wherever he goes. Each commanding officer forwarding the service record will retain an official copy of his indorsement, to which will be added the name of the soldier for purpose of identification. 5. Data to be included in indorsements,-Eac indorsement will give the reason for the soldier's change of station orstatus, and hischaracter, and will contain a full statement of his accounts at the time. Under the heading " Due United States' will be noted all authorized stoppages for loss of or damage to Government property or supplies; amounts due on account of allotment, post exchange, post laundry, tailor, company fund, or transporta- tion; and stoppages, including detained pay, under sentence of a court- martial and on account of absence from duty because of disease resulting from the soldier's own intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquor, or other misconduct. In short, all information required to be entered on muster roll and pay roll will be incorporated in the indorsement on the service record, the wording of the indorsement conforming to model remarks for such rolls prescribed by the War Department. 6. Soldiers furloughed to reserve.-When a soldier is furloughed to the re- serve, his service record will be forwarded by indorsement to the officer charged with keeping his records as a reservist. If the soldier is detached from his company at the time he is furloughed to the reserve, a copy of the indorsement forwarding the service record will be furnished his former company commander without delay. NOT 7. Soldiers discharged, etc. When a soldier is discharged or otherwise separated from the servico without being furloughed to the reserve, his service record will be closed and filed with records of his company. If he is absent from his company at the time, the officer under whom he is serv- ing will promptly transmit the service record to the company commander for file. The service record of a soldier discharged or otherwise separated from the service while in the reserve, will be closed and filed by the officer charged with keeping the reservist's record. 8. Record of court-martial.- When the service record of a soldier shows a sentence by court-martial, it will be accompanied by an authenticated copy of the record ofsummary court-martial, or by an official copy of the order pro- mulgating sentencein case of conviction by a general or special court-martial 9. Procedure in case of lost record.-Ir the event that a service record is lost & report of the fact will be made to The Adjutant General of the Army, who will start a new serviço record, transmitting same to the recruit depot or station at which the soldier was enlisted. The new record will then be forwarded in turn to the commanding officers of the companies in which the soldier has served during current enlistment, each commanding officer repeating the indorsement required by paragraph 4, and making appropriate entries in the body of the record. Pending receipt of the new service record the soldier's pay and duty status will be determined from the data shown on the last pay roll on which his name appears, and from other records of the company or detachment with which he last served. Form No. 29, A. G. O. (Instructions continu Ed. Mar. 22, 1917. 3-1375 on page 2.)