How a grave is marked by the Graves Registration Service, Q.M.C. cross has both the identity tag and plate prepared by the Service.
Mareuil-en-Dole, 77th Division
12 September 1918
A burial party of the 42nd Division, these parties were kept busy for days digging graves for the dead that littered the fields and woods after the advance beyond Chateau-Thierry.
Beuvardes, France
30 July 1918
Unknown Soldier of World War I in the rotunda at the Capitol.
November 1921
(National Archives)
Military escort for the Unknown Soldier at the Capitol preparing to depart for the Memorial Amphitheater in Arlington National Cemetery.
Washington D.C.
11 November 1921
(National Archives)
A bugler on a hill overlooking the A Shau Valley plays taps at a memorial service for the fallen soldiers of the 2nd Bn, 319th Arty, 101st Airborne Division.
Camp Evans, Vietnam
1969
(Information Office, 101st Abn Div SP4 Larry Peterson)
SP4 Russell Roever (New York City), Hq & Hq Co, 2nd Bn, 503rd Inf, 173rd Abn Bde (Sept), disconnects the parachute form a crate of 105mm howitzer ammunition in War Zone "C".
Vietnam
26-27 February 1967
(US Army Sp Photo Det, Pacific, SP5 James I. Hatton)