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Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44975612 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47444790 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 29676 WATSON 1839755 James R. 288 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Sergeant First Class Company C, 305th Fd. Signal Battalion Killed in Action 10/6/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 703  2888 Grave No, 7, Sec. A, Plot 2, Amer. B/A Cty., Brieulles sur-Meuse, Meuse Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  5/19/1919 Cemetery 1232  10617 In:  Grave 142, Section 61, Plot 3, Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse Emergency Address Mitchell Watson (Father), Jefferson, Ohio. Notified Emergency Address 12/14/1918, Form 107: 2/26/1920 R.B. Sketch No. 5759 Photograph No. D-38394   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: F115- 4-21-21 (S-193) sec 61, SDCR #672   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 7/25/1921 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  Antwerp on 9/5/1921 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 9/20/1921 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey in Consignment #52 on 10/3/1921 Shipped on 10/14/1921 to Mrs. Carrie Lentz, Bailey Road & Wycombe, Lansdowne, Pa. Received at Destination  on 10/14/1921 by Above Emergency address notified on 12/22/1921

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