| File No. |
Last Name |
Army Serial No. |
First name and Initials |
Cablegram No. |
|
14888
|
DE FOREST
|
1204520
|
Walter.
|
256
|
|
| Rank |
|
New York
|
Organization |
27th Div.
|
|
Cause of Death |
Date of Death |
|
Sergeant
|
Company G, 105th Infantry
|
Killed in Action
|
9/1/1918
|
|
| Date of Burial |
Place of Burial—Unconfirmed |
Cemetery Commune |
|
|
9/2/1918
|
|
|
Authority File No. D |
Place of Burial—Confirmed |
Cemetery Commune |
372
|
|
1054
|
Grave 6, Plot 3, Row E, Abeele Brit. Mil., Poperinghe, Belgium
|
|
Authority File No. D |
Disinterred and Reburied: Date
| Cemetery |
|
|
|
In:
|
|
| Emergency Address |
Miss May De Forest, (Sister), 45 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N.J., Edgar G. De Forest, brother, same E/A. as above.
|
Notified Emergency Address
11/21/1918
|
|
R.B. Sketch No.
|
Photograph No.
B-6492
|
|
|
| Grave Marker |
Name Peg
|
Cross
Yes
|
Head Board
|
Bottle
|
Ident. Tag |
Buried with body
Yes
|
On grave marker
Yes
|
|
| Remarks: |
E.A. also rptd. Edgar De Forest, 24 East 99th St. N.Y. City (Brother), 1/27/20-F-115
|
|
| Burial Case File: |
View on NARA website
Download PDF
|
|
| Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery |
| Cemetery: |
Flanders Field American Cemetery |
| Grave: |
|
| Authority File No. D: |
60783 |
| Reburied (date): |
6/20/1922 |
| E/A notified (date): |
1/8/1924 |
|