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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44965061 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47678532 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 66121 SMITH 2716841 Ernest S. 354 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Company A, 368th Infantry Killed in Action 9/28/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 10/1/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune C-275  6409 Isolated Grave #1, Cmme. Vienne le Chateau, Marne, 35 SW E293.4 N271.7   Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  6/20/1919 Cemetery 1232  12376 In:  Grave 174, Section 110, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mrs. Elnora Smith, Crawford, (Widow), 4251 Dix St., N.E. Washington, D.C. Notified Emergency Address Form 21A: 2/18/1919 RTD, 6/18/1919, Form 107: 3/11/1920, RTD 3/15/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-33594   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115 / 5-14-21 / 110-172   Plat No.:  D-165    Removal Project Information Body disinterred 8/10/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/5/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, NJ on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, NJ in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/15/1921 to National Cty., Arlington, Va., Received at Destination  on 10/18/1921 by Eugene H. Sleeper, Capt. Q.M.C. Emergency address notified on 1/6/1922 Permanent Burial in National Cemetery Cemetery:  Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia Grave:  381 Section:   European (Colored) Reburied (date):  10/20/1921 E/A notified (date):  1/6/1922

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