Hearl Smith - Burial File
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Hearl Smith Grave Location - n.d.
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Grave Registration Service Information - June 5, 1919
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Hearl Smith Identity Disk - n.d.
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Hearl Smith Identity Disk - n.d.
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Interment Information - n.d.
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War Department Envelope - n.d.
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Notice of Shipment - August 1, 1921
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List of Deceased Soldiers - August 11, 1921
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List of Deceased Soldiers - August 11, 1921
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Graves Registration letter to William M. Smith - August 12, 1921
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Hearl Smith Grave Location in Verdun - n.d.
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Report of Disinterment and Reburial - June 26, 1919
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Report of Disinterment and Reburial - June 21, 1921
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Report of Disinterment and Reburial - June 21, 1921
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Compilation of Disposition of Remains - April 25, 1921
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Compilation of Disposition of Remains - April 25, 1921
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William M. Smith Authorization to Receive Remains - August 1, 1921
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Report of Disinterment, Preparation, and Shipment of Body - June 21, 1921
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Report of Disinterment, Preparation, and Shipment of Body - June 21, 1921
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Chief of Cemeterial Division letter to William M. Smith - May 4, 1921
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Chief of Cemeterial Division letter to William M. Smith - May 4, 1921
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Compilation of disposition of Remains - April 28, 1921
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Sergeant Smith letter to William M. Smith - August 5, 1921
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William M. Smith Telegram to Graves Registration Service - August 3, 1921
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Graves Registration Service telegram to William M. Smith - August 2, 1921
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| Title | Hearl Smith - Burial File |
| Source | Morse, Guy E.; Correspondence, Reports, Telegrams, Applications, and Other Papers Relating to Burials of Service Personnel, 01/01/1915 - 12/31/1939; Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, Record Group 92; National Archives and Reco |
| Description | Burial records for Hearl Smith containing information pertaining to his burial and disinterment. This file also includes correspondence between Hearl Smith's father, William Monroe Smith, and the Graves Registration Service concerning the transport of Hearl's remains. Sergeant Hearl Smith served with Company F, 140th Infantry, 35th Division. He was killed in action on September 28, 1918. His remains were sent to his family in Willow Springs, Missouri. |
| Subject LCSH | United States. Army. American Graves Registration Service; Cemeteries; United States. War Department. |
| Subject Local | World War I; WWI; United States. Army. Infantry Division, 35th. Infantry Regiment, 140th; Disinterment |
| Contributing Institution | National Archives and Records Administration-National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis) |
| Rights | Documents in this file are in the public domain. |
| Date Original | 1919-1921 |
| Language | English |