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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44976437 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47445371 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 26493 WELDON 3344732 Matthew J. 283 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company L, 52th Pioneer Infantry Lobar Pneumonia 10/3/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/6/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 677  2437 Grave #70, Sec. E, Plot #2, Amer. Cty., Vaubecourt, Meuse. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address John Weldon, (Father), 104 1st Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. Notified Emergency Address 1/21/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. D-29820   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Prv. rpt.- Matheu, F115 - 1-15-21 # 271   Plat No.:  D-192    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 4/28/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/6/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 6/23/1921 aboard the Somme Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #48 on 7/5/1921 Shipped on 8/1/1921 to National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Received at Destination  on 8/2/1921 by Eugene H. Sleeper, Capt. QMC Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  2353 Section:   European Reburied (date):  August, 1921 E/A notified (date):  12/9/1921

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