Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1919 — MARK HEROES’ GRAVES [ARTICLE]

MARK HEROES’ GRAVES

In the American Battle Area. —Four thousand men of the American expeditlonarv forces are now engaged in the registration of and search for the graves of Americans who died in battle. The work of seeking the resting places of American heroes is being undertaken by the section of graves registration, which is directing its efforts so as to be able to designate the grave of every American should congress authorize the return of the bodies of the fallen. Tireless seeking for identification tags marks the daily task of the men of the graves registration section. Thev set out on their solemn mission equipped with pick, shovel and gas mask. Sometimes they pry down into the ground for the identity of the dead warrior, sometimes they ferret into t be recesses ofdiscarded dugouts and sometimes they dear away the brush ©f the forest to find somp trace of the jrietlms or battle.

Each cemetery where Americans have been buried Is fully platted on maps. The graves registration service is now extending every energy to complete the burying, marking, recording and classification of the heroic Americans.