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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44824497 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47619090 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 40606 DAVIS 1414692 Jess Elmer 298 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company A, 127th Infantry Killed in Action 10/7/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune C-178  10/7/1918 Isolated grave, Cmme. of Cierges, Meuse., Grave #4, 35 NE  306.3, N280.4 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-178  6214 Grave #7, Isolated, Cmme. Cierges, (Meuse), 35 NE E306.6 N280.5   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/7/1919 Cemetery 1232  11321 In:  Grave 119, Section 34, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Thomas Davis, (Father), Graham, Iowa. Notified Emergency Address 1/25/1919, Form 107: 2/13/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-21328   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F-8-W-A 12/14/21 on name, F115 - 4/4/21 41 - Sec 34, SDRC ~659.   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/20/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/23/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/7/1921 to Thomas Davis, Turkey River, Iowa. Received at Destination  on 9/10/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 2/4/1922

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