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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44968213 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47679728 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 34594 SPEARS 2783260 Matthew J. 291 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company I, 362nd Infantry Killed in Action 9/29/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 1005  10/9/1918 Grave #8, Plot #1, Amer. B/A Cty., Exermont, Ardennes. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-178  6225 Grave 2, Isolated, Cmme of Cierges, Meuse, Map 35 NE E305.71 N280.1   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/9/1919 Cemetery 1232  11298 In:  Grave 26, Section 48, Plot 1, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Ida Mason (Mother), 503 Magnolia St., Redding Calif. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/17/1919, Form 365: /28/1919, Form 107: 2/21/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-25971   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: 8-w-a- 4-22-21, 4/20/1921   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/23/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/3/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/2/1921 to National Cemetery, Presidio, San Francisco, Cal. Received at Destination  on 9/8/1921 by William Davis Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  San Francisco National Cemetery, California Grave:  141 Section:   A Reburied (date):  September, 1921 E/A notified (date):  12/16/1921

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