Attention Jim Tarleton, an OT question

[Jim Tarleton]

No.

1st Sgt. Daniel Amos "Pop" Hunter died at around 9:00 am 6 Jun 1918 from a GSW to the head and his current burial site is unknown to me. He is not buried in the Aisne-Marne (Belleau Wood) Cemetary (north side of Belleau Wood), as you know.

Pop was originally buried on the west edge of the first clearing north of Lucy St. George just at the woodline (Lucy-Torcy road to the east). He was buried with 75 other Marines laid side by side in a trench and wrapped in a blanket by Sgt. Tugboat Wilson (who was later KIA at Soissons). Pop's grave number was 29 if I remember correctly (subject to correction).

A great number of the Marines were disinterred and reburied in various cemetaries throughout France after the war. Starting in 1922, some bodies were disinterred and repatriaited to the USA at the cost of the family. Pop's grave does not show up in any database to which I have access.

I would like to know his grave site.

Jim

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[Rick the Librarian]

Did Lt. Jonas Platt have a son? I read of another Lt. Jonas Platt who served as c.o. of the USMC contingent aboard the battleship USS Washington during the first half of WWII. He later rose to major general. A son, I'm guessing?