Exhibit K - Extract from Special Orders No. 2241 - 1919

[Exhibit K]

[Extract from Special Orders No. 2241]

Headquarters Base Section No. 5,
Services of Supply.

U.S. Army Post Office No. 716,

August 12, 1919.

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Par. 37. Under the provisions of General Orders No. S3, War Department, dated June 30, 1919, Adele Louise Hoppock, Telephone Operator, U.S. Signal Corps, having participated, under competent orders in First Army Area from October 1, 1918, to November 29, 1918, with the Signal Corps, First Army, is authorized to wear the Victory Medal and one Defensive Sector Clasp, for the following operation : Meuse-Argonne, September 26-November 11 [1918].

"[Exhibit K]: Affidavit of Gertrude Hoppock: Extract from Special Orders No. 2241, 12 August 1919," in Recognition for Purposes of VA Benefits, Hearing before the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Unted States Senate, Ninety-Fifth Congress, First Session on S. 247, S. 1414, S. 129, and Related Bills. Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 25 May 1977. p. 366-367.