Activities of Graves Registration Service, France, 1919-1920

Creator(s): Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 9/18/1947-2/28/1964 (Most Recent)
Series: Historical Films, ca. 1914 - ca. 1936
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985
Production Date: 1936
Scope & Content: Reel 1, bodies are disinterred at the Aisne-Marne cemetery, disinfected and cleaned, identified, wrapped in blankets, put into new caskets, loaded on railroad flatcars, transferred to barges, unloaded at a port, stacked and reidentified at a warehouse, and loaded on a ship. Reel 2, Ambassador Hugh C. Wallace and others place wreaths on graves in the Suresnes cemetery in France.
Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road
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National Archives Identifier: 24713
Local Identifier: 111-H-1208
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