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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44547345 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47609865 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 50779 BITTNER 148666 Joseph P. 310 AG-201 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Bugler Battery C, 57th Coast Artillery Corps Surgical shock from Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/31/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/31/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 766  3624 Grave #14, Sec. B, Row 2, Amer. Cty., Fleury Sur Aire, Meuse. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/20/1919 Cemetery 1232  12430 In:  Grave 194, Section 106, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Thomas Bittner, (Father), 423 East Court Ave., Jeffersonville, Ind. Notified Emergency Address 12/11/1918, Form 3/13/1920RB R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - 5-9-21 (S 13) sec 106   Plat No.:  D-197    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/27/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/6/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/19/1921 to E. M. Coots & Sons, Jeffersonville, Ind. Received at Destination  on 10/21/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 3/28/1922

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