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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44931598 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47663070 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 4283 NIESEN 120238 Raymond Henry 177 & U.S.M .C. corr Rank Wisconsin Organization 2nd Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private 73rd Company, 6th Marines Killed in Action 6/5/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune MEMO  6/8/1918 Grave #1, Cmme. Lucy-le Bocage, 1 1/2 kilo. due south of village church of Lucy le Bocage is small clump of woods, Cmme list 20-1440, (app.)  E176.1, N259.1 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-21  22250 Isolated grave northern edge of 3 of the Bois de Triangle, 800 meters W.S.W. of Bouresches, in Cmme. Bouresches, Aisne E176.16 N260.575   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/14/1926 Cemetery 608  corr. In:  American B/A Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, Body held in morgue Emergency Address Frank A. Niesen- father, 817 26th St., Milwaukee, Wisc., Single Mother- Mrs. Gertrude M. Niesen, 2323 N. 26th St., Milwaukee, Wisc. - Sailed June 24, 1931 - President Roosevelt Notified Emergency Address R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg   Yes   Cross    Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks:   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Aisne-Marne American Cemetery Grave:  15 Row:   6 Block:   B Authority File No. D:  22295 Reburied (date):  8/20/1926 E/A notified (date):  10/27/1926

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