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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44553439 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47616048 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 51673 CHAFIN 1288483 Dennis 311 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company G, 116th Infantry Killed in Action 10/24/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-431  5003 Grave No 2, Isolated Grave, Cmme. Etraye, Meuse., 35 NE E326.83 N282.37   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/12/1919 Cemetery 1232  12240 In:  Grave 117, Section 95, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Meredith T. Chafin (Father), Carterton, Va. Notified Emergency Address Form 21a: ) 4/2/1919, Form 36: 5/9/1919, Form 107: 3/3/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-34087   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - 4-29-21 (S33) sec 95   Plat No.:  B-285    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 8/11/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/6/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/10/1921 to Depot Quartermaster, Wash, D.C. Received at Destination  on 10/11/1921 by Eugene H. Sleeper, Capt. Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  3698 Section:   European Reburied (date):  10/13/1921 E/A notified (date):  5/6/1922

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