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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44548195 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47610772 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 30562 BONK 1200025 Walter J. 276 Rank New York Organization 27th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Has. Troop Killed in Action 9/27/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/1/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 645  20719 Grave #12, Plot #2, Row G, St. Emilie British Amer. Military Cemetery, Villers Faucon, Somme. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  1/17/1921 Cemetery 645  30119 In:  Grave 8, Row A, Plot 1, St. Emilie British American Cemetery, Villers Faucon, Somme Emergency Address Capt Joseph E. Bonk, (Father), 142 W. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. Notified Emergency Address 5/20/1919, 107/7/191520 R.B. Sketch No. 5086 Photograph No. B-13297   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: 2-28-18 #8 N.R.   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Somme American Cemetery Grave:  16 Row:   1 Block:   C Authority File No. D:  70213 E/A notified (date):  12/6/1923 Other notations:  Parents advised through Mrs. Vedder Prior Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  636 - Somme American Cemetery Grave:  17 Row:   1 Block:   C Authority File No. D:  61290, Form 3, Report 25 Reburied (date):  9/14/1922

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