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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44870231 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47643341 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 86390 HAMILTON 297681 Jay O. 404 SP 22 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Headquarters Company 119th Field Artillery Killed in Action 9/30/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-238  5460 Isolated, Grave Unkn., Commune Montfaucon, Meuse, 35 SE E311.45 N279.02   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/11/1919 Cemetery 1232  12343 In:  Grave 76, Section 81, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Emmett Hamilton (Father), RFD #4 Decatur, Ill. Notified Emergency Address 5/22/1919 Rtd Form 107: 3/3/1920, Rtd 3/12/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-32422   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Form 12 2/24/19 rcd. 4/7/19, 4-18-21 (&79) acep   Plat No.:  A-154    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/17/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/25/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 7/21/1921 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #49 on 8/1/1921 Shipped on 8/9/1921 to Newell Brothers (Und), Decatur, Mich. Received at Destination  on 8/11/1921 by O. W. Newell Emergency address notified on 12/27/1921

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