Iowa, World War I Bonus Applications - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
Applications made to the State Bonus Board of Iowa. The bonus was a monetary award to be paid to eligible veterans approved by voters in the general election in 1922. Files include the application forms submitted by living veterans or beneficiaries of deceased veterans and supporting documentation such as certificates of identification, vital records, and other correspondence. Only the applications were indexed by FamilySearch. More information is found on the documents than what is indexed.

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Other FamilySearch Collections
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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Iowa, World War I Selective Service System draft registration cards, 1917-1918, NARA M1509
 * Iowa, World War I American Expeditionary Forces, deaths, 1917-1919

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * Iowa, Black Hawk County, Waterloo, World War I Pledge Cards, 1917-1918
 * Iowa, Military Discharge Records, ca.1862 - ca.1976
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * Jacob A. Swisher. Iowa in times of war Iowa City, Iowa : State Historical Society of Iowa, c1943
 * Winfred E. Robb The price of our heritage : in memory of the heroic dead of the 168 Infantry Des Moines, Iowa : American Lithographing and Printing, 1919

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