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Army of the United States

To all who shall see these presents, greetings:
Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the fidelity and ab
of Sergeant (T) WILIAM McC. MARTIN, JR., 32086251, SS.
* Staff Sergeant (Temporary) Hq & Hq
Co.
GHQ.
to rank as such from the 23rd
day
one

thousand

nine

hundred

to discharge the duties of—-

and

forty-one.

Staff Sergeant

I
do
hereby
appoint
him
ARMY O F T H E UNITED S T A T E S ,
of
December
He

by

is

doing

therefore

and

carefully

performing

and

all

diligently

manner

of

things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all Non-commissioned Officers
and Soldiers under his command to be obedient to his orders as Staff Sergeant
And he is to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as he shall receive
from his Superior Officers and Noncommissioned Officers set over him, according to the rules and
discipline of War.
Given under by hand at Army War College, Washington,
this
hundred




23rd
and

day

of

December

in

the

year

D.
of

our

Lord

C.
one

forty-one.
Lieutenant Colonel, Infantry, Commanding.

thousand

nine