Victor Lionel Klein (surname misspelled in photo caption at left) 

*No plaque found*

*The list of Liberty Row names shows that this soldier's plaque was placed at "North Park Blvd. (Right) (Roxboro Rd.)."

Birth: 9/18/1895, Cleveland, OH

Address: 18 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Seaman but unemployed at time of draft registration; natural born citizen

Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair dark

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date 5/24/1918; rank Private to Corporal to Private

Service Number: 3487187

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from Brooklyn, NY aboard SS Diomed

Action: 4 Co 1 Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga to July 14/18; 4 July Aut Repl Regt to Aug 12/18: Co D 116 Engrs to Sept 19/18; Co D 4 Engrs to death; Meuse-Argonne. AEF July 21/18 to death

Death: October 7, 1918 (35 days before Armistice Day November 11, 1918) at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action in evacuation hospital No. 6 at Souilly-Sur-Meuse, France

Burial:  buried American Cemetery Souilly (Meuse), France; remains disinterred 4/6/1921 for shipment to U.S. and shipped to Antwerp, Belgium, arriving Antwerp 5/1/1921; remains shipped to Hoboken, NJ 6/19/1921 aboard U.S.A.T Wheaton, arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; remains shipped to Cleveland, OH 7/29/1921 and received 7/30/1921 to the care of Mrs. Aimee A. Connors, mother, 18 Lakeside Ave. NE, Cleveland, OH; 8/2/1918 military service held at Old Stone Church, 91 Public Square, Cleveland, OH; final burial 8/2/1921 alongside his father at Woodland Cemetery, 6901 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 49 Lot 144 Grave 2-S-L

Next of Kin: Mrs. Aimee A. Conners, mother, 18 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Victor Lionel Klein was an only child. He was buried at Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, OH along with his parents, sharing a tombstone. Father: Henry B. Klein (1863-1900), born Germany, died at age 37 in a railroad accident when Victor was 5 years old; Mother: Aimee Armstrong Klein Connors (1871-1946), born Shiloh, Richland County, OH, was married 3 times and managed a boarding house, her father was described as a doctor who served in the Civil War and died in his 30's