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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44978018 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47446329 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 53683 WIERMAN 122050 Benjamin 519 SP 90 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private 83rd Company, 6th Marines Died of Wounds 6/6/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 575  Grave 74, Exhumed from woods of Lucy Bouresches Rd.,,Amer. B/A Cty., Comme of Bouresches, Aisne. Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune GRS #16 Grave 74, Plot 68 Myers, Near Bouresches, Aisne Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/5/1919 Cemetery 1764  11722 In:  Grave 47, Section S, American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne Emergency Address Bunion Wierman, father, RR #2 Lexington, Ky. Notified Emergency Address Form 107: 5/29/1920 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. F-15462   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker    Remarks: Prv. rpt. Co. K, 6th Marines, Form 8-w sent 1/13/20 for EA Form 8-W-A on CD & DD 1/20/22, F115-2-21-21 (S_2416)   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 6/16/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/23/1921 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 9/13/1921 to John Milward Funeral Home, Lexington, Ky., Received at Destination  on 9/16/1921 by John Milward. Emergency address notified on 1/10/1922

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