Name: : Almen B.  Coffin Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44555372 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47618048 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 49499 COFFIN 45116 Almen B. 308 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Machine Gun Company, 16th Infantry Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/10/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 677  2440 Grave 144, Plot 3, Sect., E,Amer. Cty., Vaubecourt, Meuse. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address J. W. Coffin (Father), RFD #3, Velva, N. D. Notified Emergency Address 1/14/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. D-29752   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - 1/14/21 - 42   Plat No.:  D-192    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 4/25/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 5/1/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 6/19/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #47 on 7/2/1921 Shipped on 7/18/1921 to National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Received at Destination  on 7/19/1921 by Eugene H. Sleeper Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  3151 Section:   European Reburied (date):  7/1/1921 E/A notified (date):  12/9/1921

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