Chester O'Neil

Chester Paul O'Neil

Birth: 9/?/1898; Cleveland, OH

Address: 1222 W. 65th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: no draft registration found, so some information incomplete; age 19 at enlistment; marital status not known; Caucasian; occupation not known; natural born citizen

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: Draft date not known; enlisted 4/12/1917; Private

Service Number: 747648

Deployment: 5/10/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard ship SS President Lincoln

Action: Columbus Bks, O. Apr 12/17. Tr C 16 Cav to Nov 23/17; Cas Det Tr 3 Div Mercedes Tex to Dec--/17; Co A 3 MP 3 Div (train and military police) to death. Aisne; Defensive Sector. AEF May 10/18 to death.

Death: June 29, 1918 at age 20; Died of Wounds Incurred Accidently in Aisne, Picardie, France  

Burial: buried locally in France; 10/24/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France; 6/2/1921 remains disinterred in preparation for shipment home to U.S.; 6/23/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp, Belgium to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Somme with arrival Hoboken on 7/5/1921; 7/21/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH with arrival Cleveland 7/22/1921 to the care of Saxton & Son Funeral Home (established 1872 as E.H. Saxton on the west side of Cleveland occupying various addresses on Pearl St. and Detroit Ave.); final resting place 7/25/1921 Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd, Cleveland, OH; Interment Number 3957 Sec 3 Lot 3 Tier 1 Grave 12

Next of Kin: Robert Gawne, grandfather, 1222 W. 65th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: seemed to be only child and an orphan at the time of draft registration; grandfather Robert Gawne (1849-1923) was born in the town of Peel on the Isle of Mann; father Jack O'Neil (1875-?) was a shipwright; mother Mabel Alice Gawne O'Neil (1878-1903) died of tuberculosis and was buried in Monroe Street Cemetery, 3207 Monroe Ave., Cleveland, OH; in 1900 Chester O'Neil was living with aunt and uncle; in 1910 he was living with grandparents Robert and Sarah Gawne; grandfather submitted application for headstone for Chester O'Neil; headstone was to be shipped to Highland Cemetery, North Randall, OH via Erie Railroad at government expense