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Re: KIA, but buried in the states?!
Posted by: ancestryseeker (ID *****0397)	Date: October 02, 2009 at 18:22:08
In Reply to: KIA, but buried in the states?! by Dan Shively II	of 8158

Ancestry has this OH Military database:
Ohio Military Men, 1917-18
Ancestry.com. Ohio Military Men, 1917-18 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2000. Original data: Official Roster of Ohio Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the World War, 1917-1918. Vol. I-XXIII. Columbus, OH, USA: F. J. Heer Printing Co., 1926.

See if your local library has a subscription for patrons to use.

Try these websites:
http://www.ohgenweb.org/
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~worldwarone/index.html

Google Books has a preview of a Book titled:
"Soldier dead: how we recover, identify, bury, and honor our military fallen By Michael Sledge" pages 156 and later describe the troubles recoving the WWI dead. It was the GRS Corp (Graves Registration Service) of the Quatermaster Corps job.
http://books.google.com/books?id=FSmBIsJDPDkC&pg=PA158&lpg=PA158&dq=Returning+WWI+Dead&source=bl&ots=97_ZCOA4x7&sig=yG-1CG4YBPlKxO2lD3Zn-2tZam4&hl=en&ei=xKbGSpu7M5O0sgOm79CoCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
So yes our US government brought our soldier's bodies back and buried them per next of kins request. Some chose to leave them in overseas cemeteries, some broght back to a "home" cemetery or state Veteran's cemetery. Some of these remains where buried first overseas then it took up to 1921 to bring some bodies back to U.S.

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