Name: : Jacob C.  Welker Back New Search

Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 44976449 Click image for larger view Zooniverse Subject # 47445378 Transcription - Front Transcription - Back File No. Last Name Army Serial No. First name and Initials Cablegram No. 55244 WELKER 2442692 Jacob C. 319 Rank Organization Cause of Death Date of Death Private Battery A, 313th Field Artillery Broncho Pneumonia 11/9/1918 Date of Burial Place of Burial—Unconfirmed Cemetery Commune 11/10/1918 Authority File No. D Place of Burial—Confirmed Cemetery Commune 57  211 Grave # 84; Amer. Plot;,Municipal Cty., Blois, Loir-et-Cher. Authority File No. D Disinterred and Reburied: Date  Cemetery In:  Emergency Address Charles Welker, (Father), 134 So. Ninth St., Quakertown, Pa. Notified Emergency Address 12/15/1918 R.B. Sketch No. 5011 Photograph No. A-979   Grave Marker Name Peg    Cross   Yes   Head Board    Bottle    Ident. Tag Buried with body   Yes   On grave marker   Yes   Remarks: 5-6-20 F-115   Removal Project Information Body disinterred 10/4/1920 for preparation and shipment. Arrived at  St. Nazaire on 10/11/1920 Shipped to Hoboken, New Jersey on 11/22/1920 aboard the Wheaton Arrived at Hoboken, New Jersey on 12/15/1920 Shipped on 1/14/1921 to Charles S. Welker, Quakertown, Pa. Received at Destination  on 1/14/1921 by Trosman F. Benner, Undertaker.

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