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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44834238 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47628147 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 27921 EVANS 556243 John Lester 279 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Machine Gun Company, 39th Infantry Killed in Action 9/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 1046  Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1046  2330 Grave # 19, Plot A, Amer. B/A, Malancourt, Meuse. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/9/1919 Cemetery 1232  12002 In:  Grave 173, Section 48, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address C.C. Evans, (Father), Alvin, Texas. Notified Emergency Address 2/18/1919, Form 107: 2/21/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-26412   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Prv. rptd. John L.   Plat No.:  A-284    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/23/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/3/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/6/1921 to National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Received at Destination  on 9/7/1921 by Asa Irwin Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  2583 Section:   European Reburied (date):  9/8/1921 E/A notified (date):  1/18/1922

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