Thursday, April 28, 2022

Morning Reports for David Nemetzky - Tientsin, China: 1924-1925

The finds just keep coming this year...I'm so glad to be making up lost time from the halt on my research that COVID imposed. Fold3.com is beginning to publish the morning reports for the different Army units from 1912 through WWII. A couple of days ago, they published the first morning reports for the Medical Department - Tientsin, China; where David Nemetzky was stationed from March of 1924 through October of 1925 - his second time serving in China. 

Below are the images of the morning reports for David Nemetzky from Tientsin, Chins from 1924 & 1925. They are nothing more than entries in a log book for each day of the month, giving a brief entry for each day and any changes that happened among the personnel for that given day. There are five entries for him in the morning reports: March 1924, July 1924, November 1924 (two entries) and October 1925.

March 1924: March 31 – Staff Sgt. Nemidski Jd. for duty pp 7 S.O. 14 Hq. 8th Corp Area Jan. 17, 24 and par. 1 S.O. 35 HQ A.F.C. Mar. 30, 24.

July 1924: July 4  S. Sgt. Nemetzky authorized to mess separately, per 3rd Ind., C.O. Am. Bks.

November 1924: November 21 – Staff Sgt Nemetzky D/S at Chingwantao left station 10 a.m.; and November 23 – Staff Sgt. Nemetzky D/S to Duty 1:15 a.m.

October 1925: October 11  Staff Sgt. D. Nemetzky trsfd to Letter Gen’l Hosp…left the station at 11pm

I'm not sure how many of these morning reports will be published for the Medical Department. I don't know if all the locations where he served will be available, or if there are gaps in the chronology or the availability of the morning reports that are being published. Another question is the condition or readability of the images that are being (or will be) published (as a side note: the images of the monthly rosters from 1912-1939 that are being indexed and published on Family Search vary as to readability - many are readable while others are less than readable. I don't know the quality of the images of the morning reports and am hoping they are all readable). We shall see.

I think what I will do is save and publish these as they become available. I'm hoping that many of the morning reports for the places where he served will be available and that I can add this additional source of information to what I have already put together.

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