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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44546598 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47609135 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 39656 BENTON 96863 Edwin J. 297 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Bugler Company F, 167th Infantry Killed in Action 10/15/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/16/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1632  8578 Grave #7, Amer. B/A Cty., Exermont, Ardennes. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/10/1919 Cemetery 1232  12037 In:  Grave 154, Section 58, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Joseph O. Benton, (Father), Union Springs, Ala. Notified Emergency Address Form 21a: )2/5/1919, Form 36: 5/27/1919, Form 107: 2/20/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-31153   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker   Yes   Remarks:   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 10/14/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 10/21/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 11/26/1921 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #55 on 12/7/1921 Shipped on 12/13/1921 to National Cemetery, Arlington, Va. Received at Destination  on 12/16/1921 by Charles Scalaling Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  3905 Section:   European Reburied (date):  12/22/1921 E/A notified (date):  2/9/1922

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