| File No. |
Last Name |
Army Serial No. |
First name and Initials |
Cablegram No. |
|
51547
|
WESTERBECK
|
2155925
|
Ben H.
|
310
|
|
| Rank |
|
Iowa
|
Organization |
30th Div.
|
|
Cause of Death |
Date of Death |
|
Private
|
Company E, 117th Infantry
|
Killed in Action
|
10/8/1918
|
|
| Date of Burial |
Place of Burial—Unconfirmed |
Cemetery Commune |
|
|
10/13/1918
|
|
|
Authority File No. D |
Place of Burial—Confirmed |
Cemetery Commune |
623
|
|
1062
|
Grave 10, Plot 1, Row A, Busigny British Military Cemetery, Busigny, Nord
|
|
Authority File No. D |
Disinterred and Reburied: Date
| Cemetery |
623
|
|
|
In:
|
|
| Emergency Address |
J. W. Westerbeck (Father), Middletown, Iowa.
|
Notified Emergency Address
9/12/1918
|
|
R.B. Sketch No.
5080
|
Photograph No.
B-12-900
|
|
|
| Grave Marker |
Name Peg
|
Cross
Yes
|
Head Board
|
Bottle
|
Ident. Tag |
Buried with body
Yes
|
On grave marker
|
|
| Remarks: |
(Beneficiary) Mrs. Anna Westerbeck, Middletown, Iowa, (Mother), No wife.
|
|
|
| Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery |
| Cemetery: |
Somme American Cemetery |
| Grave: |
|
| Authority File No. D: |
70172 |
| Reburied (date): |
3/27/1928 |
| E/A notified (date): |
3/3/1927 |
Prior Burial in Foreign Cemetery |
| Cemetery: |
636 - Somme American Cemetery |
| Grave: |
|
| Authority File No. D: |
61273 |
| Reburied (date): |
8/25/1922 |
|