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Transcription - Front
Transcription - Back
File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No.
45604 RIESCHL 919647 George R. 302

Rank
Illinois Organization 3rd Div.
Cause of Death Date of Death
Private Company C, 5th Field Signal Battalion Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/16/1918

Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery
Commune
10/21/1918

Authority
File No. D
Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery
Commune
548 
3432 Grave #55; Plot D;,Amer. Cty., Ancemont, Meuse.

Authority
File No. D
Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery
In: 

Emergency Address Miss Mary Rieschel, (Sister), 230 S. Loomis St., Chicago, Ill., Below Notified Emergency Address
12/7/1918

R.B. Sketch No.
Photograph No.
D-34870
 

Grave Marker Name Peg
  
Cross
  Yes  
Head Board
  
Bottle
  
Ident. Tag Buried with body
  Yes  
On grave marker
  Yes  

Remarks: Wm.J. Rieschel, Brother, 404 Collins St., Kenosha, Wisc. Father and mother deceased., F115 - 1/13/21 - 72  

Plat No.:  D-219   
Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery
Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Grave: 
24 Row:   32 Block:   B
Authority File No. D:  60550
Reburied (date):  12/12/1921
E/A notified (date):  4/13/1923
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