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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44958157 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47675004 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 113094 SCHAFFER 78367 Walter 546-54 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Sergeant Company M, 23rd Infantry Killed in Action 7/18/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-32  GRS Form,#16-A Isolated Grave, Commune of Longpont, Map 33SE E173.5 N286.7   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery 608 608  In:  Emergency Address Eva Schaffer (Mother), 565 Moll St., Portland, Oregon. Notified Emergency Address Form 107: B 6/15/19 Form 21: R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body    On grave marker    Remarks: F115 - 7/1/21 3850   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 2/2/1922 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 3/17/1922 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 4/8/1922 aboard the Cantigny Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #61 on 4/21/1922 Shipped on 5/13/1922 to Mrs. Eve Shaffer, 325 North/9th St., Portland, Ore. Received at Destination  on 5/19/1922 by Above per Albert S. Pollard Emergency address notified on 6/16/1922

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