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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44894140 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47634451 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 7350 KORTZ Lee B. 214 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Second Lieutenant Company A, 166th Infantry Died of Wounds Received in Action 7/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 362  8/1/1918 Grave #12, Amer., Villers sur Marne. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune G.R.S.,Form #16 Grave #12, plot 79, Myers at Villers sur Marne, Aisne E173.1 N263.5   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/12/1919 Cemetery 1764  20355 In:  Grave 73, Section T, Plot 2, American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne Emergency Address B.F. Kortz (Father), 101 No. First St. Ft. Dodge, Ia. Notified Emergency Address 10/25/1918, Form 107: 6/16/1920 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. F-14568   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross    Head Board   Yes   Bottle   Yes   Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: 2/15/21 1236   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/30/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/23/1921 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 9/6/1921 to Benjamin Kortz, 1414 - 9th Ave., North, Ft. Dodge, Iowa. Received at Destination  on 9/10/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 1/7/1922

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