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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44964972 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47678498 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 100400 SMITH 3071872 Edgar W. 484 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private 462nd Company, Motor Transport Corps Broncho Pneumonia & Influenza 3/17/1919 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 3/19/1919 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 513  3149 Grave #621, Amer. Cty., Marseille, Bouches du Rhone Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address Charles H. Smith (Father), Beaver, Iowa. Notified Emergency Address 3/31/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. M-5   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks:   Plat No.:  B-22    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 3/19/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Toulon on 3/26/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 5/30/1921 aboard the Mars Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #45 on 6/20/1921 Shipped on 6/28/1921 to Chas. D. Smith, Box # 125, Boone Co., Beaver, Iowa. Received at Destination  on 7/2/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 1/24/1922

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