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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44829360 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47623746 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 7197 DRAKE 157917 William S. 210 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company A, 6th Engineers Killed in Action 7/16/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Reburied 9/18/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 929  9651 Grave # 8, Amer. B/A Cty., St. Eugene, Aisne. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/7/1919 Cemetery 608  11726 In:  Grave 126, Section R, Plot 3, American B/A Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne Emergency Address James D. Drake ,, 437 Quincy St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Notified Emergency Address 1/29/1919, Form 107: 12/12/1919 R.B. Sketch No. 5893 Photograph No. F-16782   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: E.A. also rptd. 37 Eldert St., Brooklyn, N.Y. SN: prev. rptd. 157971, F#115 13-7-20-84   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 4/28/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/4/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 6/19/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #46 on 7/2/1921 Shipped on 7/21/1921 to Oscar A. Boch, Undertaker, 122 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. Received at Destination  on 7/21/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 2/16/1923

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