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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44941256 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47668544 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 36277 POERTNER 1459405 Otto E. 289 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Machine Gun Company, 140th Infantry Killed in Action 9/28/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 743  3684 Grave 43, Plot B, Amer. B/A Cty., Exermont, Ardennes. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/1/1919 Cemetery 1232  10284 In:  Grave 62, Section 35, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Jennie Poertner, (Mother), 816 - 3rd St., Booneville, Mo. Notified Emergency Address 1/25/1919, 1/16/1920 107 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-20933   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: 156   Plat No.:  A-282    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/21/1921 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 8/31/1921 to Mrs. Jennie Poertner, 817 3rd St., Boonville, Mo. Received at Destination  on 9/2/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 12/14/1921

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