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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44912981 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47650969 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 2788 MATTSON 45684 August 148 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Machine Gun Company, 18th Infantry Killed in Action 5/27/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1241  2603 Grave 58, Plot A, Amer. Cty., Cantigny, Somme. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/3/1919 Cemetery 176  11941 In:  Grave 33, Section A, American Cemetery, Villers-Tournelle, Somme Emergency Address Charles Mattson, (Father), Kipling, Mich. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 3/13/1919, ( Form 36: ) 4/30/1919, Form 107: 1/8/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5319 Photograph No. B-14142   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks:   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 12/9/1920 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Calais on 2/13/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 2/27/1921 aboard the Somme Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey on 3/14/1921 Shipped on 4/5/1921 to August Mattson Post, Amer. Leg, #71, Gladstone, Mich. Received at Destination  on 4/7/1921 by E. C. Dayton, Cmmdr.

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