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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44836472 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47630112 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 98828 FIKSTAD 3138072 Melvin P. 413 SP 57 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company I, 127th Infantry Killed in Action 10/5/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune MEMO  10/12/1918 Gesnes, Meuse, C-270, 35 NE, Gr. #4 (GLB)  E304.8, N281.8 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-270  GRS #16 Grave Isolated, Gesnes, 35NE E304.8 N282.7   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/6/1919 Cemetery 1232  10819 In:  Grave 176, Section 32, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Fredrica Fikstad, (Mother), Thornton, Idaho. Notified Emergency Address Form 107: /6/19220, Form 107: /6/19320 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Form 8-W sent 1-28-20 for EA., F115 - 4/5/21 62 - Sec 32   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/26/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/5/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/19/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/14/1921 to Henry Fikstad, 255 S. First East, Rexburg, Idaho Received at Destination  on 10/19/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 2/6/1922

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