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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44542015 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47604563 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 42877 ACONTIUS 45846 George. 300 Rank Illinois Organization 1st Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Company A, 18th Infantry Killed in Action 10/4/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-246  9909 Grave #2, Isolated, Chatel Chehery, Ardennes., 35 SE; E301.5 N279.4   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/16/1919 Cemetery 1232  12238 In:  Grave 70, Section 91, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Rosie Acontius, (Mother), 2627 N. Hamlin Ave., Chicago, Ill., Benef.) Notified Emergency Address 1/23/1919, Form 107: 3/3/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-27522   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Mother's later E/A Hancock, Wis., EA prev. rept 1057 Homan Ave. R#1, F115 4-20-21 sheet 1 sec 91   Plat No.:  A-272    Burial Case File:  View on NARA website   Download PDF Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  39 Row:   39 Block:   H Authority File No. D:  31407 Reburied (date):  9/20/1921 E/A notified (date):  10/1/1923

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