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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44943425 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47669558 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 106669 PURNELL 4043285 Roy 563 Rank Pennsylvania Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private C. A. 543rd Engineers Service Battalion Drowned, Body Recovered 5/24/1919 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune MEMO  5/28/1919 Grave 57, Section A. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1204  G.R.S.,Fm. #16 Grave #57, Le Mans, Sarthe. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  7/19/1920 Cemetery 419  60004 In:  Grave 44, Section B, Plot American, Grand Cemetary, Le Mans, Sarthe Emergency Address Mrs. Viola Purnell, (Wife),, 663-Painters Run Road, Bridgeville, Pa., Mother Dead Sailed July 10, 1931 - American Banker Notified Emergency Address R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. A-9023   Grave Marker Name Peg   Yes   Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: 4/17/20 F.115 F115 - 5/13/21 - 792   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Oise-Aisne American Cemetery Grave:  36 Row:   26 Block:   D Authority File No. D:  61131 Reburied (date):  7/31/1922 E/A notified (date):  4/29/1924

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