Name: : Claude E.  Kessler Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44891976 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47631852 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 27224 KESSLER 1445669 Claude E. 284 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company D, 129th Machine Gun Battalion Killed in Action 9/30/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/10/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1709  9325 Grave 54, Plot A, Row 2, Amer. B/A, Baulny, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/6/1919 Cemetery 1232  11026 In:  Grave 6, Section 12, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Milton E. Kessler (Father), 807 No. Pennsylvania Ave., Webb City, Mo. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/5/1919, Form 107: 1/27/1920 6/2/1919 36, RTD 2/9/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-8475   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115-3-21-21 (S92), Sec 12   Plat No.:  A-148    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/9/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 6/23/1921 aboard the Somme Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #48 on 7/5/1921 Shipped on 7/25/1921 to National Cemetery, Ft. Leavenworth, Kans. Received at Destination  on 7/30/1921 by G.W. Thomas. Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Kansas Grave:  1734-B Section:   A Reburied (date):  August, 1921 E/A notified (date):  12/8/1921

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