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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44881287 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47649186 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 37291 HIGH 1493442 Benjamin E. 293 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Machine Gun Company, 9th Infantry Killed in Action 10/3/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-262  5169 Isolated Grave 3, Commune Somme-Py Marne, 35 SW E270 N279.5   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/4/1919 Cemetery 1232  10872 In:  Grave 33, Section 96, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address W.H. High, Father, R.FD. #3, Huntsville, Texas. Notified Emergency Address Form 107: 3/4/1920, 5/23/1919 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-27604   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: SN: Prev. Reptd:- 1493422 F. 12, 2-25-19., F115 4-18-21, S# 77   Plat No.:  D-75    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/11/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/18/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/9/1921 to National Cty., San Antonio, Texas. Received at Destination  on 9/15/1921 by John Shelley Und., Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  San Antonio National Cemetery, Texas Grave:  1363 Section:   G Reburied (date):  September, 1921 E/A notified (date):  1/3/1922

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