Name: : Earnest J.  McAlpine Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44901892 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47643297 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 24661 MCALPINE 181589 Earnest J. 277 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company B, 1st Gas Regiment Killed in Action 9/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/6/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 909  2854 Grave 12, Plot B, Amer. B/A Cty., Cierges, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/14/1919 Cemetery 1232  10311 In:  Grave 16, Section 66, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Josephine McAlpine (Mother), Hodges Ferry Road, Portsmouth, Va. Notified Emergency Address 1/28/1919, Form 107: 1/17/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-10170   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - 5-5-21 (S114) sec 66   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/25/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 8/12/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/1/1921 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #51 on 9/13/1921 Shipped on 9/22/1921 to G. A. McAlpine, Portsmouth, Va. c/o J. E. Snellings, Und Received at Destination  on 9/24/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 12/23/1921

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