1919 Appointment to Colonel
This document is a notice of Frank Gerlach's appointment to Colonel on May 1st, 1919. It is the sixteenth page in the Gerlach file.
Transcription
The
President
of
The United States of America
To all who shall see these presents, greeting:
Know ye, that reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity
and abilities of Frank C. Gerlach,
I do appoint him Colonel of Infantry in
The United States Army
to rank as such from the twenty-second day of October
nineteen hundred and eighteen. He is therefore carefully and diligently to
discharge the duty of the office to which he is appointed by doing and preforming all
manner of things thereunto belonging.
And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under his command
to be obedient to his orders as an officer of his grade and position. And he is to observe and
follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the
future President of the United States of America, of the General or other Superior
Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War.
This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United
States, for the time being, and for the period of the existing emergency, under the provisions
of an Act of Congress approved. May eighteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Given under my hand at the City of Washington, this twenty-second day of
October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen,
and in the one hundred and forty-third year of the Independence of the United States.
By the President:
The Adjutant General’s Office.
Recorded: May 1 1919
[illegible signature] [illegible signature]
Adjutant General. The Assistant Secretary of War.