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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44962730 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47677248 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 68135 SHIRKEY 3352788 Samuel L. 367 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company M, 319th Infantry Died of Wounds Received in Action 11/6/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune C-477  Grave No. 1, Sec., Cemetery, Map, Verdun N.W. 35, Imecourt, Ardennes.  E299.4, N289.8 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  10/15/1919 Cemetery 1232  21337 In:  Grave 108, Section 114, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Miss Ella Shirkey, (Sister), 940 Oak St., Columbus, Ohio. Notified Emergency Address 24 Dec 1918, Form 107: A 3/15/19 Form 21: R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F-115-5-25-21 S 67 Sec 114   Plat No.:  C-4    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 8/10/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/5/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/19/1921 to Schoedinger Co., Und., Columbus, Ohio. Received at Destination  on 10/21/1921 by Above per J.A.P. Emergency address notified on 1/4/1922

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