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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44974716 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47444253 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 36572 WALSTON 1892495 Lafayette 292 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company I, 324th Infantry Pneumonia 10/12/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/14/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 345  1709 Grave 46, French Mil. Cty., Raon L' Etape, Vosges. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  1/28/1921 Cemetery 345  30079 In:  Grave 21, French Military Cemetery, Raon L'Etape, Vosges Emergency Address Willie E. Walston, brother,, R # 3, Elm City, N.C. Notified Emergency Address 12/14/1918 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. D 39973   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F 115/10/25/20   Plat No.:  A-357    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 9/1/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/28/1921 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 11/12/1921 to Thomas Yelverton & Co., Wilson, N.C. Received at Destination  on 11/15/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 5/11/1922

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