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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44826722 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47621268 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 40615 DEWITT 1962385 Morris B. 298 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Sergeant Company B, 121st Machine Gun Battalion Killed in Action 10/6/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/10/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-270  7842 Isolated Grave 8, ,Cmme. Gesnes, Meuse.,35 NE: E304.4 N281.9   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/6/1919 Cemetery 1232  10819 In:  Grave 174, Section 32, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Rosa B. Dewitt, Mother, 185 Glessner St., Mansfield, Ohio. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/15/1919, Form 36: 5/28/1919, Form 107: 1/28/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-22412   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115, Sec. 32, 4-5-21 53   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/26/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 8/12/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/1/1921 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #51 on 9/13/1921 Shipped on 9/29/1921 to H. B. DeWitt, 185 Glessner Ave., Mansfield, Ohio. Received at Destination  on 9/29/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 12/13/1921

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