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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44881284 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47649182 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 74082 HIGGS 2672015 Robert A. 330 Rank New York Organization 27th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company C, 108th Infantry Killed in Action 10/17/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/18/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 642  1134 Grave 13, Plot A, Row 2, Amer. Plot, Cty. Brit. Mil. St. Souplet, Nord. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  2/2/1921 Cemetery 642  30129 In:  Grave 1, Row 2, Plot A, Military Cemetery, Saint-Souplet, Nord Emergency Address Edmond W. Higgs, Brother, 1324 S. Vince St., Morris Park, L.I., N.Y., Single Over Mother - Mrs. Laura Van Riper Higgs, 144-47 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing, L.I.? N.Y. Sailed May 20, 1931 - President Harding Notified Emergency Address 5/23/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. B-12812   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Serial Number previously reported as 2672051 Prev. reptd. as HIGGS, Robert H., F. 8, sent 4-4-19 present status. Serial Number previously reported as 2672051 Prev. reptd. as HIGGS, Robert H., F #115, 8-13-20   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Somme American Cemetery Grave:  4 Row:   31 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  70175 Reburied (date):  4/2/1928 E/A notified (date):  3/14/1927 Other notations:  Mrs. Laura Van Riper Higgs (Mother) 50 Delaware St., Flushing, New York. Father dead. No wife. Prior Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  636 - Somme American Cemetery Grave:  9 Row:   31 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  61276 Reburied (date):  8/7/1922

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