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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44863579 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47640894 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 29486 GRIFFITTS 105630 Sherman 282 Rank Kentucky Organization 1st Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Bugler Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/2/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune AWARD - Cited in GO 1, 1st Div., 1-1-20 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1693  9089 Grave 4, Amer. B/A Cty., Neuvilly, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/22/1919 Cemetery 1232  10759 In:  Grave 7, Section 6, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Dora Lemaster , Mother, Benef., 423 Boundary St. Portsmouth, Ohio., Sailed May 17, 1932 S.S. Leviathan Notified Emergency Address 5/28/1919, 1/24/1920 107, 107/7/192720 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-4074   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: #12 3-9-19, F115 - 3/18/21 72 - Sec 6   Plat No.:  A-158    Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  31 Row:   24 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  30758 Reburied (date):  3/15/1922 E/A notified (date):  Nov. 27, 1922. , (corrected 12-4-22) Other notations:  (corrected 12-4-22)

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