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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44962156 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47676981 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 72189 SHELTON 2236888 Benjamin F. 395 Rank Texas Organization 90th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company B, 315th Engineers Died of Wounds Received in Action 10/31/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 673  3670 Grave 8, Plot 1, Row 1, Amer. Cty., Esnes, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/21/1919 Cemetery 1232  10601 In:  Grave 38, Section 7, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Austin W. Shelton (Father), Route #2, Beeville, Bee Co., Texas, Mother - Sarah Shelton - same address Notified Emergency Address 1/22/1919, Form 107: 1/21/1920, Returned 4/1/1919, RT 1/31/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-2741   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: No rec. of wife. prev. rptd. Pvt., Form #8 sent 4/1/19 for correct N.R., F115 3/14/21 Sec 7   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  32 Row:   18 Block:   A Authority File No. D:  30891 Reburied (date):  2/22/1922 E/A notified (date):  3/20/1923

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