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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44914565 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47652352 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 46703 MESSER 1698505 Edward T. 305 Rank Organization 77th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Company L, 305th Infantry Killed in Action 10/11/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/13/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-254  8111 Grave 6, Isolated, Cmme Marcq, Ardennes, SHT 35 NW E294.1 N282.2   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/10/1919 Cemetery 1232  10972 In:  Grave 74, Section 14, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Jennie Finn (Mother), 443 Gold St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Notified Emergency Address 1/29/1919, Form 107: 1/27/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D- 7773   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: DD prev. rept. as 10//13/18 Auth. A. G. O. letter 2/13/20   Plat No.:  D-43    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 8/12/1921 to Jennie Finn, 165 Dean St., Brooklyn, N.Y. Received at Destination  on 8/12/1921 by Above. per Mrs. E. Saddler Emergency address notified on 12/8/1921

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