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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44958377 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47675103 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 10602 SCHER 244632 Louis 229 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company C, 5th Field Signal Battalion Killed in Action 7/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Reburied 10/28/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 620  9553 Grave 56, Amer. B/A Cty., Roncheres (Aisne) Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/12/1919 Cemetery 608  11820 In:  Grave 234, Section H, Plot 5, American B/A Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne Emergency Address Mrs. M. Scher, (Mother), 346 Fair Ave., Benton Harbor, Mich. Notified Emergency Address 12/12/1918, Form 107: 1/2/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5826 Photograph No. F-22269   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross    Head Board   Yes   Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: Prev. Rept. Pvt. Co. C. 5th Fl Sig. Bn., F#115-12-16-20 (S_2830)   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 5/12/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/13/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 6/19/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #47 on 7/2/1921 Shipped on 8/15/1921 to Lewis Waldman, Chicago, Ill. Received at Destination  on 8/18/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 1/6/1922

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