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WAR HISTORY COMMISSION
STATE OF VIRGINIA
MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
Name in full
(family name): Akers
(first name): Harvey
(middle name): George
Date of birth
(month): August
(day): 10
(year):
Place of Birth
(town): Bravir [?]
(county): Floyd
(state): Virginia
(country): USA
Name of father: Floyd Akers
Birthplace (country): [?]
Maiden name of mother: Boothe
Birthplace (country): [?]
Are you White, Colored, Indian or Mongolian: White
Citizen (Yes or no): Yes
Voter (yes or no): No
Church (denomination): United Brethern
Married: Yes
year: March 15
at: [?]
To (maiden name): Sallie M. [?]
Born: Franklin County
year:
at: Haste, Virginia
Children
(name): George H. Akers, Jr.
Born: February 16
year: 1918
at: [?]
Children
(name):
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at:
Children
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Born:
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at:
Fraternal Orders: [?]
College Fraternities: [?]
Previous military service or training: In military
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WAR RECORD
First went into action (place):
(date):
Participated in the following engagements:
Cited, decorated, or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): :
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
Nature of casuality:
(place):
(date):
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(place):
(date):
Nature of casuality:
(place):
(date):
Under medical care:-
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to (date):
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to (date):
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to (date):
Permanently disabled (through loss of limb, eyesight, etc.) (specify disability):
Arrived at (American port):
on (ship):
Date:
(from):
Discharged from service at (place):
(date):
as a (rank):
RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE
Occupation after the war:
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process of re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupations::
