Grover Vincent's Military Records Uncle Grover's military service was something of an issue in my family after I began doing family research in 1970.  I often talked to my older brother Rick Vincent (1941-2017) about family history.  My parents "Hap" and Doris Vincent often went with me on research trips visiting old cemeteries, court houses, or distant relatives.   Mother wrote this about Grover in her research log: [Grover] was gassed in France, Spent last years of his life in V.A. Hospital at Oteen, North Carolina. Here's a link to her record: Vincent - Grover WWI record.  In it, she said "WWII" but she meant World War I.  I wrote about what she and Rick told me and how I found out the corrected facts about his military service, the year of his birth, and other such information which you can read about if you CLICK HERE.  In a nutshell, Grover was never gassed.  Rather, he contracted tuberculosis several years after he was discharged.  That was the cause of his hospitalization. Among the heirlooms his brother-in-law Frederick J. Robinson sent me was Grover's WWI "Officer's Record Book" which I've scanned for others to read.  There's only a little information in this ancient record but it's quite interesting: - Officers Record Book Cover - Record Book - Page 1 showing Grover was discharged as a 1st Lt. in the Transporation Corps.  It also gives his date of birth and next of kin (his mother, Mrs. Margaret Missouri [Finch] Vincent and her address.  His dad, Aaron Vincent, died in 1901 and his mother, Margaret was a widow. - Record Book - Page 2 shows Grover's training record, service dates, where and how he served on those dates, the date and reason for his promotion from 2nd Lt. to 1st Lt. (S.) 150, paragraph 41) and the fact that he was never wounded, never sick from wounds, and never received anything exceptional other than the promotion.  This page also shows the date he was shipped abroad with the "E.F." (Expedition Force), which was 26 May 1918 but does not mention when he returned from France. - Record Book - Page 3 is blank.  It was here that his commanding officer was supposed to record anything good or bad about his service.   I did not scan Page 4 which was a blank page with no printing that was adjacent to the inside back cover, also blank. For more information about Grover's service, I found a nice "Service Card" located in the website for Florida Archives.  Here's the link to the record which I downloaded from the website and edited to make it larger and more readable: Vincent-Grover_1921_Service_Card.  This is the equivalent to today's DD-214. A transcript and explanation about what's on this service card and the meaning of some abbreviations on the card can be found here: Vincent-Grover_1921_Service_Card_Transcript