Name: : Lester B.  Dayton Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44825006 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47619565 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 5359 DAYTON 51741 Lester B. 198 Rank New Jersey Organization 2nd Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company K, 23rd Infantry Killed in Action 6/6/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 713  Grave No. 76, Exhumed from Hill 192, Amer. B/a Cmme of Essommes Sur Marne, Essommes-sur-Marne, Aisne Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune GRS,Frm. 16 Grave 76, Plot 70, Myers, North slope of Hill, 192 E178.3 N259.5   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/5/1919 Cemetery 1764  11404 In:  Grave 134, Section M, Plot 3, American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne Emergency Address Joseph Dayton, Father, # 2207 Astor Apts., Atlantic City, N. J., Single Mother - Mrs. Jennie Dayton, General Delivery, Lafayette, Ind. Sailed Aug. 19, 1930 - Geo. Washington Notified Emergency Address 12/27/1918, 1/12/1920 107 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. F-15367   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker    Remarks: Prv. rpt. Co. M, 23rd Inf. Mrs. Jennie B. Dayton (Mother), 106 N. 2nd St., Camden, N.J., F115 - 2/12/21   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Aisne-Marne American Cemetery Grave:  52 Row:   5 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  31797 Reburied (date):  10/20/1922 E/A notified (date):  10/29/1928

Hover on a cemetery number to display the cemetery name. Click on a cemetery number to search for all cards with that cemetery number. Click on a plat number to search for all burials from the database linked to that plat number. If present above, click on the icon to view the object location on the AEF Resources Map, an online GIS map tool for locating WWI AEF burials and other AEF resources.