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ACTIVITIES OF GRAVES REGISTRATION SERVICE, FRANCE, 1919-1920 Reel 1 · Part 2
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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.
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