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He's not mine, but if Sgt. Charles Hollingshead died in 1918 in France, he would have been a World War I casualty. His military records can be obtained from the National Archives.
FYI, you don't have to be a family member to contact the VA to see about replacing a gravestone...which they will do free of charge. They will replace a stone for any veteran if it is no longer legible and/or has clearly seen better days. However, what you also need to do first is check to make sure the man is actually buried in this cemetery! Rather than having the body shipped home, some families allowed their soldier to be buried in Europe. They would then erect a regular headstone in the family plot to commemorate the death. (When this is done, the stone is called a centotaph, not a tombstone.) I have a sneaking suspicion that the VA does not replace centotaph markers.
Around here, the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War will order replacement tombstones from the VA, then do whatever labor is necessary to erect them. Their efforts are generally aimed at replacing the markers of Civil War veterans, but when the fragile old joint headstone of the namesake of my former DAR chapter and her Revolutionary War soldier husband was vandalized, the SUVCW gravestone crew not only ordered a new granite marker from the VA for the husband, but they also repaired, then re-erected the old, joint one as well. After these men had finished setting the new stone and repairing the old one, they carefully (and very thoroughly) cleaned all of the other stones in that family's plot. For doing all of this incredible work, they didn't ask the chapter for a dime!
You might also want to check with the VFW and the American Legion, as I believe they also have programs for replacing stones on the graves of veterans.
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