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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44545454 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47608112 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 95751 BATTLE John Manning 249 Rank New York Organization 2nd Div. Cause of Death Date of Death First Lieutenant Machine Gun Company, 23rd Infantry Died of Wounds Received in Action 7/21/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 7/22/1918, Disinterred 9/14/1918 Award - Cited GO 88-2d Div. Dec.31,1918 as follows: "For his magnificent courage and unselfishness when mortally wounded on the night of July 19, 1918, near Vierzy, France. He refused to accept medical aid until the 16 men who had been injured by the she Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 297  597 Grave 20, L'Ouest Cty., New Amer. Cty., Angers, Maine et Loire Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address Mr Gaston Battle (Father), Rocky Mount, N. C. 340 S. Pearl St. Notified Emergency Address R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. L-7599   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker    Remarks: Prv. rpt. John M. EA Also City Point, Care of Dupont Club, Va. (Same name)   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Grave:  37 Row:   25 Block:   D Authority File No. D:  61105 Reburied (date):  8/4/1922 E/A notified (date):  4/25/1924

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