Name/Title
Orders, MilitaryEntry/Object ID
1993.039.0020Scope and Content
Order of Induction into Military Service of the United States.
To Carl August Lunsted
Order Number 3579 Serial Number 2093
Greeting: Having submitted yourself to a local board composed of your neighbors for the purpose of determining the place and time in which you can best serve the United States in the present emergency, you are hereby notified that you have now been selected for immediate military service.
You will therefore report to the local board named below at
Napa, Cal, at 10.am, on the 27th day of August 1918, for military duty.
From and after the day and hour just named you will be a soldier in the military service of the United States.
W.H. Hill, Chairman and signed by th chief clerk.
Date Aug. 16, 1918
Form 1028 P.M.G.O. (see Sec. 157, S.S.R.)
8" x 10-1/2" sheet of cream-color paper (both pages)
BHM1993.039.0020a - Form 1028A which accompanied the induction notice : Important Notice to all men selected for military service and ordered to report to a local board for military duty
Contained information on which would happen if the man did not report and what he should bring with him when he did.
BHM1993.039.0020b - Envelope used to deliver the induction notice Addressed to Carl August Lunsted, Napa, Cal. c/o Oscar Fagerberg, Soda Springs Road.
Postmarked Bakersfield Cal. Aug. 19 7 PM 1918Collection
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