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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44962709 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47677235 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 26105 SHIPPS 1457081 Thomas C. 274 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company G, 139th Infantry Died of Wounds Received in Action 9/27/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/27/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1693  9087 Grave 6, Plot C, (Amer B/A) Neuvilly, (Meuse) Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/22/1919 Cemetery 1232  10260 In:  Grave 98, Section 25, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Louisa M. Shipps, (Mother), R.F.D. #6, Tarkio, Missouri. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/19/1919, Form 107: 1/20/1920, Form 36: 6/3/1919, Form 107: B 6/3/19 Form 21: R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. D-35351   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - 3/30/21 155 - Sec 25   Plat No.:  A-158    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/12/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/18/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/20/1921 to Mrs. Louise M. Shipps, Spickards, Mo. Received at Destination  on 9/23/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 1/5/1922

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