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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44881171 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47649054 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 2456 HIGBY 154967 Francis. 135 Rank New York Organization 1st Div. Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company F, 1st Engineers Killed in Action 5/16/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 5/18/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 176  2628 Grave 23, Plot E, Amer. Cty., Viller-Tournelle, Somme Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery 176, 176  In:  Emergency Address Mrs. Bertha Page, (Mother), 461 E. Water St., Elmira, N. Y., Widow remarried Sailed May 21, 1930 - George Washington Notified Emergency Address 10/27/1918, Form 107: 1/8/1920, Renotified 4/25/1919 R.B. Sketch No. 5331 Photograph No. B-14338   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: Wife re-married, no record father. EA prev. reptd. C1   Permanent Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  Somme American Cemetery Grave:  15 Row:   10 Block:   C Authority File No. D:  70222 Reburied (date):  10/17/1922 E/A notified (date):  2/1/1927 Prior Burial in Foreign Cemetery Cemetery:  636 - Somme American Cemetery Grave:  16 Row:   10 Block:   C Authority File No. D:  Form 3, Report 41, 61231 Reburied (date):  10/17/1922

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