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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44551690 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47614302 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 37087 BUXTON 1379443 James R. 289 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Corporal Battery F, 124th Field Artillery Killed in Action 10/7/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/8/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 1658  8278 Grave #3, Plot A, Row #1, Amer. B/A Cty., Very, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  4/24/1919 Cemetery 1232  10368 In:  Grave 56, Section 26, Plot 2, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Geneva Buxton, (Wife), Edgemont St. E. St. Louis, Ill. Notified Emergency Address Form 21a: )2/7/1919, Form 36: 5/31/1919, Form 107: 1/19/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-35225   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 - -3/30/21 26 - Sec 26   Plat No.:  A-97    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/18/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 7/23/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 8/6/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #50 on 8/20/1921 Shipped on 9/30/1921 to Kurrus Livery and Und Co, East St. Louis, Ill. Received at Destination  on 10/5/1921 by Jos. A. Kurrus Emergency address notified on 12/10/1921

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