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Transcription - Front
Transcription - Back
File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No.
54565 YOCUM 77584 Birchard G. 316

Rank
Organization
Cause of Death Date of Death
Private Company A, 27th Engineers Killed in Action 10/3/1918

Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery
Commune

Authority
File No. D
Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery
Commune
C-156 
6374 Grave 1, Isolated, Cmme of Varennes-en-Argonne, Meuse, Map 35 SE
E303.4 N275  

Authority
File No. D
Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/17/1919 Cemetery 1232 
10568 In:  Grave 22, Section 21, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse

Emergency Address Miss Rosa Yocum, (Sister), Culver, Kansas, (Beneficiary) Notified Emergency Address
107/5/192520

R.B. Sketch No.
5759
Photograph No.
D-37425
 

Grave Marker Name Peg
  
Cross
  Yes  
Head Board
  
Bottle
  
Ident. Tag Buried with body
  
On grave marker
  Yes  

Remarks: Form 8 sent 3-4-19, F115 3-28-21 206  

Removal Project Information
Body disinterred 6/23/1921 for preparation and shipment.
Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/3/1921
Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton
Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921
Shipped on 9/14/1921 to National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Received at Destination  on 9/16/1921 by Asa Irwin

Permanent Burial in National Cemetery
Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
Grave: 
3525 Section:   European
Reburied (date):  9/29/1921
E/A notified (date):  12/10/1921

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