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Transcription - Front
Transcription - Back
File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No.
14639 ALEXANDER Edward Porter 355 269 SP CC3

Rank
Organization
Cause of Death Date of Death
First Lieutenant Company D, 509th. Pioneers Battalion (Engineers Septicima with acute dilation (cardiac) 9/5/1918

Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery
Commune
9/7/1918

Authority
File No. D
Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery
Commune
21 
458 Grave #561, Plot A, Square #3, American Cemetery, St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure

Authority
File No. D
Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery
In: 

Emergency Address Mrs. Myra S. Alexander, (Wife), 2311 East 3rd. St., Duluth, Minnesota. Notified Emergency Address
3/31/1919

R.B. Sketch No.
Photograph No.
L-561
 

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

Remarks: 3-1-19 # 8 NR.  

Removal Project Information
Body disinterred 11/16/1921 for preparation and shipment.
Arrived at  Antwerp on 12/5/1921
Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 12/28/1921 aboard the Crook
Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #57 on 1/14/1922
Shipped on 1/18/1922 to Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D.C.
Received at Destination  on 1/20/1922 by D.R. Wolverton, Capt. QMC

Permanent Burial in National Cemetery
Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia
Grave: 
4412 Section:   European
Reburied (date):  1/26/1922
E/A notified (date):  9/27/1922

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