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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44842283 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47632784 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 74807 FRANCIS 100173 John 245 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company B, 68th Infantry Killed in Action 7/26/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Abt. 8/5/18 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 566  9600 Grave #115, Fere-en-Tardenois, Aisne Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/10/1919 Cemetery 608  11823 In:  Grave 87, Section H, Plot 2, American B/A Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne Emergency Address C.L. Francis, (Father), 1522 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, Iowa. Notified Emergency Address 1/10/1919, Form 107: 12/27/1919 R.B. Sketch No. 5849 Photograph No. F-22165   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Prev. rept. Co. B, 168th Inf., F115-12/8/20 - 1057   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 5/14/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/13/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 6/19/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #47 on 7/2/1921 Shipped on 8/1/1921 to Leroy C. Dunns Funeral Homes, 805 Pleasant St., Des Moines, Iowa. Received at Destination  on 8/5/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 10/12/1922

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