Heinrich "Henry" Aloysius Bartelme

*No plaque located*

*The list of Liberty Row names shows that this soldier's plaque was placed at "Lake to St. Clair (Right)."

Birth: 3/1/1896, Cleveland, OH

Address: 7406 Quincy St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; claimed draft exemption in order to support his father and due to a disability listed as "ruptured;" occupation Surveying at "E.B. Wright's [sic]" located in the Rose Building, Cleveland, OH [Elmer Burton Wight (1870-1943) was an Engineer in general practice at the Rose Building.] 

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/9/1917; 12/6/1917; Private

Service Number: 1942887

Deployment: 6/12/1918 from New York aboard SS Carmania

Action: Co B 323 MG Bn [Machine Gun Battalion] Dec 7/17 to Aug 1/18; Co D 3 MG Bn to Oct 6/18. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF June 12/18 to Oct 6/18. Cited in GO 1 Div Jan 1/20

Death: October 6, 1918 (~1 month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918) at age 22; cause of death Killed in Action 

Burial: buried locally twice in France, at Exermont, Ardennes and Meuse; final burial 2/16/1922 at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot C Row 13 Grave 33

Next of Kin: Louis Bartelme, father, 7406 Quincy St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Private Henry A. Bartelme's mother died when he was 7 years old.

Father: Aloysius "Louis" Bartelme (1855-1927), born Mitterdorf ander Raab, Weiz Bezirk, Styria, Austria, emigrated 1886, occupation Cabinet Maker in the Showcases Industry; Mother: Mary Schleimer Bartelme (1862-1903), born Windischdorf, Eferding Bezirk, Upper Austria, Austria, emigrated 1886, had 11 children of whom 5 had survived as per the 1900 Census and had at least one additional child after 1900. She died in 1903 at age 41 of septicemia. Siblings: Joseph Bartelme (1887-?); Emma Bartelme Mann (1890-1940), who in 1920 named her only child born after the death of her brother "Helen Ann," (initials H.A. the same as her brother). (Helen Ann Mann (1920-1999) would have been Private Henry A. Bartelme's niece had he lived and may have been his namesake.); Edward Bartelme (1897-1964); Frank Bartelme (1900-?); George Bartelme (1901-1984). Both parents buried at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH