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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44938195 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47667144 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 32328 PENKAL 108455 Joseph W. 286 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private 15th Company, 6th Machine Gun Battalion, USMC Killed in Action 10/4/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/6/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-262  1037 Grave #3, Isolated graves, Cmme. Somme-Py, Marne, 34 SE E266.7 N279.9   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/13/1919 Cemetery 1232  12041 In:  Grave 186, Section 82, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Lena Penkal, (Mother), 5253 NewlandAve., Chicago, Ill. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/8/1919, Form 36: 4/1/1919, Form 107: 3/1/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. F-33157   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: F115 - 5/25/21 - 207   Plat No.:  D-98    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 8/8/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/6/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/17/1921 to Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D.C. Received at Destination  on 10/18/1921 by Eugene H. Sleeper, Capt. Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  3789 Section:   European Reburied (date):  10/27/1921 E/A notified (date):  4/5/1922

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