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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44827648 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47622183 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 28078 DIXON Ben Franklin 284 Rank North Carolina Organization 30th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Captain Company K., 120th Infantry Killed in Action 9/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/30/1918 Awarded - D.S.C. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 726  1083 Grave 78, Row 1, Plot A., Old Hickory #3, Mil. Cty., Pontru, Aisne. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/5/1919 Cemetery 636  11214 In:  Grave 29, Row 2, Plot B, American Cemetery, Flanders Field, Bony, Aisne Emergency Address Mr. Stonewall J. Durham, (Half-Brother), Gastonia, N.C. Notified Emergency Address 12/1/1919, 1/23/1919 107 R.B. Sketch No. 5228 Photograph No. B-11240   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Mrs. B. F. Dixon (mother) 302 South York St., Gastonia, N. C. Father dead, No wife Wright T. Dixon (brother) State Auditors Office, Raleigh, N.C.   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Somme American Cemetery Grave:  9 Row:   16 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  70160 Reburied (date):  4/7/1928 E/A notified (date):  4/29/1926 Prior Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  636 - Somme American Cemetery Grave:  24 Row:   15 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  70160

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