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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44853421 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47636820 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 31589 GIBSON 2214462 Elmer W. 288 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Company L, 4th Infantry Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/10/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/12/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 558  3138 Grave 148, Row 5, Amer. Cty., Froidos, Chateau Salvange, Meuse. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/16/1919 Cemetery 1232  12175 In:  Grave 50, Section 57, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Beulah Gibson, Wife., Melbourne, Mo. Notified Emergency Address 12/5/1918, 2/25/1920 107 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-30678   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115- 4/23/21, 66- Sec 57, SDCR# 659   Plat No.:  D-201    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/13/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/18/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/13/1921 to Mrs. Beulah Gibson, Melbourne, Mo. Received at Destination  on 9/16/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 2/7/1922

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