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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44947270 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47671363 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 80434 RICKENBACH 1787181 John R. 414 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Headquarters Company, 316th Infantry Killed in Action 9/27/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/28/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-238  5385 Grave 3, Plot A, Isolted, Cmme, Montfaucon, Meuse, SHT 35 SE E311.42 N278.56   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/3/1919 Cemetery 1232  10820 In:  Grave 33, Section 94, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Kattie S. Richenbach (Wife), RFD #1, West Leesport, Pa. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/1/1919, Form 36: 5/27/1919, Form 107: 3/3/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-34237   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 5-2-21 S# 1543   Plat No.:  A-154    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 8/10/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/5/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/8/1921 to Edwin K. Rickenbach, Reading, Pa. Received at Destination  on 10/8/1921 by J. D. Natzinger. (Und) Emergency address notified on 12/31/1921

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