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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44961333 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47676490 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 28955 SHAFFER 1806048 Lewis E. 286 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company I, 314th Infantry Killed in Action 9/28/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/28/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-177  5859 Grave , Isolated Grave, Malancourt, Meuse, Map 35Se. E314.75 N273.4   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/11/1919 Cemetery 1232  12075 In:  Grave 9, Section 106, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Mammie Shaffer (Mother), RFD #1. Wilkesbarre, Pa. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/17/1919, Form 107: 3/8/1920, Form 36: , 5/23/1919 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-22172   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F-115 - 5-9-21 (S-181) Sec 106   Plat No.:  A-300    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 9/13/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/23/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 10/14/1921 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #53 on 10/25/1921 Shipped on 11/1/1921 to Undertaker Tubbs, Nanticoke, Pa. Received at Destination  on 11/2/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 1/9/1922

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