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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44955954 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47673906 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 102217 RUSSELL 106421 Richard S. AG-201 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company D, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion Killed in Action 5/28/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Reburied 1/18/1919 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 176  2635 Grave 167, Plot E, Amer. Cty., Villers Tournelle, Somme Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  1/18/1919 Cemetery 176  12442 In:  Grave 153, Section C, American Cemetery, Villers-Tournelle, Somme Emergency Address Mrs. R.D. Russell (mother), Wills Point, Texas, Notified Emergency Address Form 107: 1/9/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5331 Photograph No. B-14409   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Prv. rpt.- Pvt. - Co. D, 2nd M.G. Bn - CC; 607-8 & 569 SP 113 rpts DD: 9/30/18 Lt:AGO - 4/1/21, Form 8 sent 5-13-19 for present status., SDCR #657   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 1/24/1921 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 3/24/1921 to R.D. Russell, Wills Point, Texas. Received at Destination  on 3/27/1921 by Above

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