Name: : Willis E.  Comfort Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44555929 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47619141 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 7743 COMFORT Willis E. 211 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Captain Company F, 16th Infantry Killed in Action 7/18/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/20/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-46  22489 Isolated grave, Cmme of Ploisy, Aisne E175.45 N290.97   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery 608  In:  Emergency Address Mrs. L.L. Comfort (Mother), Kit Carson, Colorado, SEE OVER Misshipment, body of Comfort found in isolated grave 1/30/28. Notified Emergency Address 107/6/19120 R.B. Sketch No. 5330 Photograph No. B-268   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Form #8 sent 4-28-19 for pres. stat., F.115 S. 4169 (6-12-28)   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 1/30/1928 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Dunkirk Shipped to Brooklyn, New York on 9/18/1928 aboard the McKeesport Arrived at Brooklyn, New York on 10/4/1928 Shipped on 10/6/1928 to C. A. Burliew (Southern Funeral Home), Manhattan, Kansas Received at Destination  on 10/16/1928 by Above Emergency address notified on notified of misshipment 5/28/1928 Other notations: * Per V.B. address changed July 20, 1927. - Mrs. Jennie Comfort (Mother) 429 South Reed St. , Lyons, Kansas. father deceased.

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