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How a grave is marked by the Graves Registration Service, Q.M.C.
cross has both the identity tag and plate prepared by the Service.
Mareuil-en-Dole, 77th Division
12 September 1918
A burial party of the 42nd Division, these parties were kept busy for days digging graves for the dead that littered the fields and woods after the advance beyond Chateau-Thierry. Beuvardes, France, 30 July 1918
in the rotunda of the Capitol
November 1921
(National Archives)
with military escort at the Capitol preparing to depart for the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery
11 November 1921
(National Archives)
A bugler on a hill overlooking the A Shau Valley plays taps at a memorial service for the fallen soldiers of the 2nd Bn, 319th Arty., 101st Airborne Division, 1969
(Information Office, 101st Abn Div SP4 Larry Peterson)