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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44978306 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47446512 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 4315 WILKES 121497 Joseph Simmons 178 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private 79th Company, 6th Marines Killed in Action 6/2/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 554  6/10/1918 Grave No. 78, Amer. B/A Cty., Cmme of Bouresches, Aisne. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune GRS #16 Grave 78, Plot 67, Myers, Boureshces, Station. E177.3 N261.5   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/4/1919 Cemetery 1764  20269 In:  Grave 140, Section A, Plot 3, American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne Emergency Address Joseph S. Wilkes, Father, 403 7th St., Salt Lake City, Utah Notified Emergency Address 12/6/1918, Form 107: 6/1/1920 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. F-14642   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Exhumed prev. rep. in Plot 36. Prev. Reptd: Joseph S. Co. F. 6th Marines, F115 - 2/21/21 2422   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/6/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/23/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/2/1921 to Albert Wilkes, 403-7th Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah. Received at Destination  on 9/7/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 1/9/1922

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