ACTIVITIES OF GRAVES REGISTRATION SERVICE, FRANCE, 1919-1920 | The Archive Project

Video Parts (5 across 2 reels)

This clip is Reel 1, Part 1 of a 5-part film.

Description

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 re-identified 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.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Historical Films

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Date

1936-01-01

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TRT

2:47

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