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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44979969 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47447534 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 107764 WIRE 2153091 Amos W. 568 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company H, 307th Infantry Now presumed dead from all available information Killed in Action* 9/7/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1610  6570 Grave #9, Amer. B/A Cty, Merval (Aisne) Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/26/1919 Cemetery 617  20589 In:  Grave 63, Section B, Plot 2, American B/A Cemetery, Fismes, Marne Emergency Address William Wire (Father), Gravity, Iowa. Notified Emergency Address Form 107: 5/18/1920, Form 107: /8/192620 R.B. Sketch No. 5648 Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Form 8 sent for present status, SCDR #765 (S-1470), Form 8 sent for present status 6/8/19, F#115-12-3-20 (S-1470), SDCR #765   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 3/11/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 4/18/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 4/26/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey on 5/18/1921 Shipped on 6/6/1921 to Frank Downing, Undertaker, Gravity, Iowa. Received at Destination  on 6/11/1921 by Above per Frank H. Raynor L.R.

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