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D7664-2
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- 1938-11-26 (Creation)
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64-year-old Joseph H. Beidler, former Staff Sergeant of the State Champion 148th Field Artillery Band, studies his honorable discharge papers. He is being automatically discharged from the Washington Guard for age after 20 years of service. Staff Sgt. Beidler is the second man to remain in the enlisted ranks of the Washington Guard long enough to retire. Beidler, a bandsman all the way back to the Gay 90's, came to Tacoma 30 years ago and went to work for Carstens Packing Co. Exempt from military service, he joined the Service Battery of the 3rd Washington Infantry when it was organized in 1918. Its purpose was to provide local forces to replace those sent into federal service with the national army. Since that time, he has served continuously. (T. Times 11/28/1938, pg. 16)
Beidler, Joseph H.; Washington National Guard (Tacoma); Military personnel--Tacoma--1930-1940;