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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44544210 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47606882 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 53909 BACKER 1760281 Samuel A. 315 Rank New Jersey Organization 78th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private 310th Company Ambulance 303rd Sanitary Train Killed in Action 11/4/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 11/5/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-248  8819 Isolated Grave, Cmme. Grandpre, Ardennes, 33 NW E290.2 N287.8   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/2/1919 Cemetery 1232  11032 In:  Grave 187, Section 13, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Charles Charrlat, Uncle, 62 W. Main St., Pennsgrove, N.J., (Beneficiary) Notified Emergency Address 1/21/1919, Form 107: 1/28/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-7851   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Prev. Rept. DWRIA C.C. 532 SP 124 correcting date of death from 11-5-18 to 11-4-18., F115 3-21-21   Plat No.:  B-39    Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  39 Row:   20 Block:   B Authority File No. D:  30943 Reburied (date):  2/24/1922 E/A notified (date):  5/28/1923

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