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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44825463 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47620025 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 14888 DE FOREST 1204520 Walter. 256 Rank New York Organization 27th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Sergeant Company G, 105th Infantry Killed in Action 9/1/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/2/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 372  1054 Grave 6, Plot 3, Row E, Abeele Brit. Mil., Poperinghe, Belgium Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address Miss May De Forest, (Sister), 45 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N.J., Edgar G. De Forest, brother, same E/A. as above. Notified Emergency Address 11/21/1918 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. B-6492   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: E.A. also rptd. Edgar De Forest, 24 East 99th St. N.Y. City (Brother), 1/27/20-F-115   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Flanders Field American Cemetery Grave:  12 Row:   1 Block:   B Authority File No. D:  60783 Reburied (date):  6/20/1922 E/A notified (date):  1/8/1924

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