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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44826456 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47621011 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 35426 DESMOND Walter P. 293 Rank Massachusetts Organization 3rd Div. Cause of Death Date of Death First Lieutenant Medical Det 18th Field Artillery Killed in Action 10/6/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/6/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-238  5459 Isolated Grave 2, Commune Montfaucon, Meuse, 35 SE E311.05 N278.58   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/3/1919 Cemetery 1232  12132 In:  Grave 121, Section 46, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Walter P. Desmond., Medford, Mass, Below Notified Emergency Address RTD 1/21/1919 (Misdirected to Bedford, Mass also Main), retd 3/5/1919, Form 107: RTD 2/25/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-25593   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Form 8 3/8/19. Maine 5/5/19., Form 115 4-21-21 S# 41   Plat No.:  A-154    Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  7 Row:   44 Block:   D Authority File No. D:  31191 Reburied (date):  11/18/1921 E/A notified (date):  7/28/1923

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