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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44546576 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47609113 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 32578 BENSON 1789457 William 286 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Company 314th Ambulance Company 304th Sanitary Train Killed in Action 9/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/30/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 780  2455 Grave #10, Amer. B/A Cty., Montfaucon, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/11/1919 Cemetery 1232  10324 In:  Grave 97, Section 15, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Lucinda Benson (Mother), 645 Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. Notified Emergency Address 12/29/1918, Renotified 4/24/1919, Form 107: 1/21/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-35882   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 -3-23-21 (S -10) Sec 15   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/21/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/25/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 7/21/1921 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #49 on 8/1/1921 Shipped on 8/11/1921 to Oscar A. Boch, 122 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. Received at Destination  on 8/11/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 12/10/1921

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