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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44855135 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47637485 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 18071 GIPSON 126939 Ben H. 295 Rank Texas Organization 1st Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Wagoner Supply Company 7th Field Artillery Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/5/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/6/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 977  3785 Grave #65, Plot B, Amer. B/A Cty., Cheppy, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/3/1919 Cemetery 1232  10574 In:  Grave 1, Section 16, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address F.B.Gipson, (Brother), Abilene, Texas., Ben Franklin Gipson, father, Wichita, Falls, Tex. Notified Emergency Address 107/6/191020 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-35572   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Form 8 sent 6-16-19 for pres. stat., F115 - 3-24-21 (S - 87) Sec 16   Plat No.:  A-76    Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  6 Row:   3 Block:   E Authority File No. D:  30730 Reburied (date):  2/21/1922 E/A notified (date):  9/12/1922

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