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We suggest that you begin your search by contacting NARA's National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis for your father's OMPF. Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) and individual medical reports for enlisted men of the U.S. Army who were separated from the service after October 1912 and prior to 1955 are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. You may apply online for this file at http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/.
If you are aware of the unit(s) that Wallace Lereaux was attached to during World War I, the Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) has custody of the Records of the American Expeditionary Forces (World War I) (Record Group 120). Military unit files among these records consist mostly of historical reports, operation reports, and unit journals. Because the files are arranged hierarchically, identification of the specific unit (i.e., division, regiment, and battalion) and date of interest are necessary before a search can be conducted. We do not have a name index to these records.
We will be happy to make the WWI unit records and their finding aids available to you or your representative in the Textual Research Room (Room 2000) here at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. For information about visiting, including how to schedule a visit, please see our website athttps://www.archives.gov/college-park.
We invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub, but should you have follow up questions for the staff at Archives II, please email us atarchives2reference@nara.govso that we can assist you further.
We hope this assists you with your research!
Sincerely,
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) [RR2RR 23-44359-LN]
Thank you for posting your question to History Hub!
We suggest that you begin your search by contacting NARA's National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis for your father's OMPF. Official Military Personnel Files (OMPFs) and individual medical reports for enlisted men of the U.S. Army who were separated from the service after October 1912 and prior to 1955 are in the custody of NARA's National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. In many cases where personnel records were destroyed in the 1973 fire, proof of service can be provided from other records such as morning reports, payrolls, and military orders, and a certificate of military service will be issued. You may apply online for this file at http://www.archives.gov/veterans/military-service-records/.
If you are aware of the unit(s) that Wallace Lereaux was attached to during World War I, the Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) has custody of the Records of the American Expeditionary Forces (World War I) (Record Group 120). Military unit files among these records consist mostly of historical reports, operation reports, and unit journals. Because the files are arranged hierarchically, identification of the specific unit (i.e., division, regiment, and battalion) and date of interest are necessary before a search can be conducted. We do not have a name index to these records.
We will be happy to make the WWI unit records and their finding aids available to you or your representative in the Textual Research Room (Room 2000) here at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. For information about visiting, including how to schedule a visit, please see our website athttps://www.archives.gov/college-park.
We invite you to continue the conversation with community members on History Hub, but should you have follow up questions for the staff at Archives II, please email us atarchives2reference@nara.govso that we can assist you further.
We hope this assists you with your research!
Sincerely,
Textual Reference Archives II Branch (RR2RR) [RR2RR 23-44359-LN]
