Name: : Walter B.  Birkland Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44547238 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47609762 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 36914 BIRKLAND 142950 Walter B. 289 Rank Illinois Organization 42nd Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Battery F, 149th Field Artillery Killed in Action 10/11/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/12/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-225  6390 Isolated Grave, Cmme. Very, Meuse., 35 SE E307.5 N274.3   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/13/1919 Cemetery 1232  12041 In:  Grave 183, Section 82, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Norman S. Birkland, (Father), 9220 Pleasant Ave., Chicago, Ill. Notified Emergency Address 1/17/1919, Form 107: 3/1/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-33154   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - 4/30/21 13 - Sec 82   Plat No.:  A-113    Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  25 Row:   31 Block:   E Authority File No. D:  31355 Reburied (date):  10/7/1921 E/A notified (date):  9/22/1923

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