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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44979222 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47447043 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 66470 WILLIS 1342846 Benjamin 355 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company K, 9th Infantry Killed in Action 11/10/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 11/10/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-331  5934 Grave 3, Isolated, Cmme Landres-et-St.Georges, Ardennes, SHT 35 NE E302.7 N286.5   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/17/1919 Cemetery 1232  12087 In:  Grave 132, Section 57, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mathen Willis, (Father), Alabama City, Ala. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/8/1919 Form 36: 5/31/1919, Form 107: 2/27/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-30804   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 4-25-21 S#201   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/12/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/18/1921 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 9/17/1921 to Mathew Willis, Box.#3, Alabama City, Ala. Received at Destination  on 9/20/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 12/20/1921

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