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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44547254 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47609776 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 109617 BIRR 1334364 Edward 602 Rank Organization 1st Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private Hospital Company #2 Menthol wood alcohol poison 7/11/1919 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1246  Corr. Grave 26, German Civ. Cty., Dernbach, Germany. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address Mrs. Minnie Gliffe, (sister), 2424 Mozart St., Chicago, Ill. Notified Emergency Address R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross    Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Duty status to be determined. Prv. rpt.- Edward S.   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 5/26/1920 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 6/8/1920 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 6/12/1920 aboard the Mercury Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey on 6/29/1920 Shipped on 7/29/1920 to Mrs Minnie Cliffe, Chicago, Ill. Received at Destination  on 7/31/1920 by Above. Per John P. Mueller Emergency address notified on 11/2/1922

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