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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44547257 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47609779 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 13142 BIRTZ 1043850 Louis 241 Rank Massachusetts Organization 5th Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private Battery A, 19th Field Artillery Died of Accidental wounds. 8/22/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 8/24/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 453  1649 Grave 1, Amer. Cty., Gelacourt, M-et-M. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery 453  In:  Emergency Address Mr. Louis Birtz, (Father), 106 Puritan Ave., Worcester, Mass. Notified Emergency Address Renot 4/30/1919, 4/25/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. D-39699   Grave Marker Name Peg   Yes   Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle   Yes   Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: SN. prev. rept. as 104335. Father's address also Reptd: 130 Hugnot Road, Oxford, Mass., F115 12-29-20 (4)   Plat No.:  A-417    Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Grave:  11 Row:   18 Block:   H Authority File No. D:  60200 Reburied (date):  10/13/1921 E/A notified (date):  6/1/1922

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