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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44930709 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47662175 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 21302 NELSON 2097184 William A. 264 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private First Class Company D, 23rd Infantry Killed in Action 9/13/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 9/13/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-115  2221 Grave #4, Isolated, Cmme. Limey, M-et-M, 52 SE E364.9 N233.3   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/7/1919 Cemetery 1233  10425 In:  Grave 150, Section 12, Plot 3, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle Emergency Address Mrs. Mathilda Nelson, (Mother), 1299 Payne Ave., St. Paul, Minn., Beneficiary Notified Emergency Address 1/5/1919, Form 107: 11/18/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No. D-17382   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker    Remarks: F115 2/1/21 2741   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 2/1/1922 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 2/13/1922 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 3/19/1922 aboard the Cambrai Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #60 on 3/29/1922 Shipped on 4/10/1922 to Mr. Peter Nelson, 606 Hawthorne St., St. Paul, Minn. Received at Destination  on 4/12/1922 by Above Emergency address notified on 6/30/1922

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