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Submitted: 8/20/10 • Approved: 8/20/10 • Last Updated: 8/16/12 • R363141-G0-S3
PVT US Army
78 Field Artillery 6 Division
World War I
July 21, 1896 - September 25, 1918
Killed In Action
Meuse-Arconne Cemetery France
Plot C Row 10 Grave 38
Cenotaph
Served with honor in the world's war, buried in the service of his country, buried in Meuse-Arconne Cemetery, France.
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Claude D. Sims
Private, U.S. Army
78th Field Artillery Regiment, 6th Division Entered the Service from: Arkansas
Died: September 25, 1918
Buried at: Plot C Row 10 Grave 38
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Romagne, France
Within the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial in France, which covers 130.5 acres, rest the largest number of our military dead in Europe, a total of 14,246. Most of those buried here lost their lives during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of World War I. The immense array of headstones rises in long regular rows upward beyond a wide central pool to the chapel that crowns the ridge. A beautiful bronze screen separates the chapel foyer from the interior, which is decorated with stained-glass windows portraying American unit insignia; behind the altar are flags of the principal Allied nations.
On either side of the chapel are memorial loggias. One panel of the west loggia contains a map of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Inscribed on the remaining panels of both loggias are Tablets of the Missing with 954 names, including those from the U.S. expedition to northern Russia in 1918-1919. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
Contributed on 8/20/10 by eagle12953
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