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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44550869 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47613481 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 97142 BUFORD 271401 Nelson Milton CC 493 SP 59 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Hdgrs Company 2nd Replacement Battalion, USMC Killed in Action 6/9/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 712  Grave #38, Plot 69, Amer. B/A Cty., Lucy-le-Bocage, Aisne.,Exhumed fr. field West of Bois Belleau Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune GRS #16 Grave #38, Plot 69, Unknown Field, Belleau Woods. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/4/1919 Cemetery 1764  11150 In:  Grave 45, Section N, Plot 1, American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne Emergency Address William Buford, (father), Guymon, Oklahoma. Notified Emergency Address R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. F-25024   Grave Marker Name Peg   Yes   Cross    Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Form 8-W sent 1/16/20 for e/a, F 115 - 2-11-21 (S. 279)   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/24/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 11/28/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 12/4/1921 aboard the St. Mihiel Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #56 on 12/16/1921 Shipped on 1/3/1922 to Charles Geevy, Kiowa, Kansas Received at Destination  on 1/7/1922 by Above Emergency address notified on 11/15/1922

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