The Graves Registration Service and Its War Dead Work
The Graves Registration Service trained units at quartermaster centers before combat. They recovered and identified fallen soldiers, using tags, fingerprints, tooth charts, and personal effects. Unknown dead were traced to owners through rings, letters, and records, with long follow ups and civilian aid, continuing after cessation of hostilities. The service consolidated graves into semi permanent cemeteries, deployed across 450 sites at peak, and reduced to 380 within six months. The War Department now handles repatriation of remains under new law.
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Italy
War Department
Sidi Bou Zid
New Guinea
United States
Germany
Japan
The Christian Science Bulletin on Honest Business Practice
The text argues business should be guided by spiritual understanding of God. It promotes fair dealings, absence of greed, wider social benefit, and ethical conduct as the basis for true success. It cites Jesus and Mary Baker Eddy to urge upright, principled commerce.
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Geddle
Pot
Christ Jesus
Mary Baker Fddy Sass
Oato
Wesker
Anich
Atta
Plan to mail burial disposition letters to next of kin
The Office of the Quartermaster General will begin sending letters to the legal next of kin of fallen Army personnel to confirm burial wishes. Letters will be mailed progressively after cemetery record verification. Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard kin will receive notices from their respective departments.
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Quartermaster General
Army
War Department
Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
Next of
Navy Department
Red Cross
War Shipping Administration
Memorial Division
Washington
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
ECO
Marine
U S. Marine Corps
US Coast Guard
Naval
New York
San Francisco
United States
Next of Kin
the Quartermaster General
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Manville, R
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Cheshire
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Thompson Ave
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First Street
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High Street
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WM. Ingram Express
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Andrew “Derry
VORRO
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Warren, KR
Geo
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Warren, R. I
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Swansea
Olding’s Boat Yard
Newt
Truscott
Mass
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Ulysse Forget
Main ST
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J. A. Chartier
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