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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44542825 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47605373 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 79059 ALTON 1564332 Forrest A. 446 SP 81 Rank Indiana Organization 1st Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company E, 28th Infantry Killed in Action 10/4/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/27/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-123  6794 Grave # (Unknown), Isolated Grave, Cmme. Cheppy, Meuse., 35 SE, E304.6 N271.6   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/17/1919 Cemetery 1232  12088 In:  Grave 156, Section 57, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. J. C. Alton, (Mother), 225 S. 9th St., Vincennes, Ind. Notified Emergency Address 3/20/1919, Form 107: 2/25/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-30780   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Form #8 sent 3/13/19, F115 - 4/22/21 5 - Sec 57   Plat No.:  A-238    Burial Case File:  View on NARA website   Download PDF Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  14 Row:   33 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  31256 Reburied (date):  11/3/1921 E/A notified (date):  8/15/1923

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