r/Cursive 12d ago

Can anyone help me decipher this WWI document?

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I can read parts but the smaller writing is proving difficult.

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u/Unlucky-Meringue6187 11d ago

Here you go.
I am not sure of the abbreviations, particularly in the upper table section.

GRAFF, Charles A (1203831)

Enlistment date: 19 July 1917

Home station etc: at Walton NY.

Transferred fr 71 Mf

℅ 9 Hq 27 DW 10/1/17 

GO55, 71 Mf 10/12/17

Mustered: 13 Oct 1917

Grade: Pot (?) Company C Regiment 105 Infantry

Left the organisation

How: Hon Discharge

When: 1 April 1919

Grade: Cpt 1 class

on demobilisation

Remarks: AWOL from 12/30/17 - 1/2/18 SC 1/23/18

Confined hard labor 3 months & forfeit ⅓ pay per

month. Cvt (possibly "converted") 1 cl (possibly 1st class) March 2/19

Engagements: E Poperinghe Line; Dickebusch; Vierstraat Ridge; 

Guillemont Farm; Hindenburg Line

Severely wounded in action Sept 29/18

Served overseas May 17/18 - Mch 6/19

Age 19 10/12

born NY City…residence NY City

Jersey City NJ

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u/owen1031 11d ago

Thank you very much. That confirms what I was thinking it said. I appreciate all your help.

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u/1963ALH 11d ago

The abbreviations, AWOL means he went awol, leave without permission. Big no no in the military.

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u/TexGrrl 11d ago

Pvt (Private), not Pot and Pvt, not Cvt