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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44551287 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47613899 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 30847 BURNS 558507 Forest N. 280 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Sergeant Company M, 47th Infantry Killed in Action 9/28/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 735  Grave #11, Amer., Brieulles sur Meuse., Meuse. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 735  2945 Grave 26, American B/A Cty, Brieulles-Sur-Meuse, Meuse, 35 NE E312.8 N282.4   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/9/1919 Cemetery 1232  10213 In:  Grave 55, Section 90, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, (Body now in Morgue) Emergency Address John W. Burns, (Uncle), Mecca, Ind. Notified Emergency Address 12/29/1918 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross    Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Prev. rept. as ser. no. 558501 Auth. AGO 3/31/20., F-115 5/25/22 57   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/12/1922 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/15/1922 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 6/20/1922 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #67 on 6/30/1922 Shipped on 7/12/1922 to J.W. Burns, Rockville, Ind. Received at Destination  on 7/14/1922 by Above

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