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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44962594 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47677177 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 10610 SHIELDS 1598363 Lex 229 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company L, 38th Infantry Killed in Action 7/25/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 769  7/25/1918 Grave # 69, Amer. Cty., Jouy-sur-Morin, Seine-et-Marne Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 769  Trans.,,Letter Grave 69, Amer. Cty., Jouy-sur-Morin, Seine-et-Marne Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address Mrs. Lex Shields, (Wife), Arcadia, La. Notified Emergency Address 5/12/1919 R.B. Sketch No. Photograph No.   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker    Remarks: Arrd. in France with 1st Co. Camp Beauregard, June Auto RDr., #8 N/R 3-1-19, F 115 - 1/20/21   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 4/22/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 5/9/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 6/19/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #46 on 7/2/1921 Shipped on 8/4/1921 to Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C. Received at Destination  on 8/5/1921 by D. R. Wolverton, Capt. QMC Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  2854 Section:   European Reburied (date):  8/8/1921 E/A notified (date):  10/20/1922

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