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Description: Written on the claim document: To Local Board for the County of Fentress, State of Tennessee. Address Jamestown, Tenn. I, Alvin C. York, Pall Mall, Tennessee, now hereby claim an appeal to the District Board for Middle District of Tennessee Nashville, Tennessee, because you denied my claim for discharge which was based upon the ground that I am a member of a well organized Religious Sect or organization existing May 18th, 1917, whose then existing creed or principles forbade its members to participate in war, etc. A. C. York Pall Mall, Tennessee.
Title: Conscientious Objector Claim of Appeal for Alvin Cullum York
Credit: https://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/arch_results_detail.jsp?&pg=162&si=0&st=b&rp=digital&nh=860
Author: Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Total Army Personnel Command.
Permission: This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 597110.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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