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File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No.
100132 BEWS 2886166 Joseph 481

Rank
Organization
Cause of Death Date of Death
Corporal 501st Company Motor Transport Corps Gunshot Wound inflicted by French civilian 3/10/1919

Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery
Commune
3/11/1919

Authority
File No. D
Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery
Commune
21 
4376 Grave 1145, Plot H, Square 5, Amer. Cty., St. Nazaire, Loire Inferieure

Authority
File No. D
Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery
In: 

Emergency Address Isbella Bews, (Sister), 11 Truman St., New Haven, Conn. Notified Emergency Address
4/7/1919

R.B. Sketch No.
Photograph No.
L-1117
 

Grave Marker Name Peg
  Yes  
Cross
  
Head Board
  
Bottle
  
Ident. Tag Buried with body
  Yes  
On grave marker
  Yes  

Remarks: Form No. 8 sent 3/28/19.  

Removal Project Information
Body disinterred 6/29/1920 for preparation and shipment.
Arrived at  St. Nazaire on 6/29/1920
Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 8/24/1920 aboard the Princess Matoika
Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/5/1920
Shipped on 9/21/1920 to M.F. Walkers, Undertaker, New Haven, Conn.
Received at Destination  on 9/21/1920 by Viola E. Fitzgerald, (M. F. Walker & Sons.), (sister)

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