U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1861-1985

Validator (claude-sonnet-5-5, 2026-10-28): partial, confidence 3/4, tier record.
The image is a readable VA Form 40-1330 headstone application for George S. Wood, Captain, US Army, WWI. It gives birth as July 30, 1891 and death as Aug 13, 1977, matching the claimed date and death year. The record is silent on birthplace, so the place part of the claim is not supported. The 'Jr.' and 'Slack' parts of the name are also not shown, so the claim is only partly supported.
Matches: Name George S. Wood matches George Slack Wood Jr. by first name, middle initial and surname; Birth date handwritten as July 30, 1891, matching the claimed 30 July 1891; Death date Aug 13, 1977 matches the claimed death year of 1977; Captain, US Army, WWI is plausible for a man born in 1891
Limits: The form gives no place of birth, so Ridgefield, Bergen, New Jersey is not supported; The form does not say 'Jr.' and gives only the middle initial S., not 'Slack'; The form does not name parents, so it cannot confirm which George S. Wood this is; The birth date was handwritten into a field labelled 'year of birth', apparently by the applicant (his wife, Amanda), not taken from an original birth record