Martin Thomas Moran

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth: 1/11/1891, Cleveland, OH

Address: 1892 W. 44th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: single; Caucasian; occupation Machinist at a Machine Shop per 1910 Census; no draft registration found, which would have contained additional demographic information; research also hampered by the prevalence of the surname Moran

Appearance: not found 

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date not known; Private First Class 

Service Number: 158487

Deployment: 12/4/1917 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS George Washington

Action: Co C 6 Regt Engrs to death. Pvt June 5/17; Pvt 1cl July 10/17; Pvt Jan 1/18; Somme Defensive; Champagne-Marne; Defensive Sector. AEF Dec 4/17 to death

Death: July 16, 1918 at age 27; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: buried and reburied as many as four times in Aisne, France; final burial 5/16/1921 at Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial, Fere-en-Tardenois, Picardie, France, Plot B Row 13 Grave 5

Next of Kin: Nora Masterson (Mrs. Thomas Masterson), cousin, and John W. Moran, brother, both living at 1892 W. 44th St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: burial card stated that his parents were dead and that he did not have a wife; Father: born Ireland; Mother: per the 1910 Census, Anna Moran, born Ireland, immigrated 1879, occupation Laundress at home, had 5 children of whom 2 were surviving, stated she was a widow at age 38 with 2 sons: John, a teamster, and Martin, a machinist; no additional information found about parents and other family members