Elmer Louis Le Tourneau

Birth: October 12, 1893, Detroit, MI

Address: 2091 W. 48th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Printer at Exline Co., 113 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, OH (The Exline Printing and Binding Company, aka William Exline, Inc., is a fourth-generation Cleveland family business dating to the 1890's and still in existence.) 

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

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/25/1918; Private

Service Number: 2657690

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from New York aboard SS Neleus

Action: 16 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga May 25/18 to July 12/18; July Aut Repl Draft Cp Gordon Ga to Aug 10/18; Co E 163 Inf to Aug 20/18; Co L 26 Inf to Sept 12/18. Pvt. St Mihiel; Defensive Sector. AEF July 22/18 to Sept 12/18. 

Death: September 12, 1918 at age 25; cause of death Killed in Action at St. Mihiel, France

Burial: Saint Mary Cemetery, 2677 W. 41st St., Cleveland, OH (aka Burton Street Cemetery) alongside his parents

Next of Kin: Louis Le Tourneau, father, 2091 W. 48th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Louis Le Tourneau (1861-1928), born Quebec, Canada, emigrated 1880, occupation Ship Caulker; Mother: Alexandra Le Tourneau (1860-1919), born Michigan and of French Canadian ancestry, emigrated 1880; Siblings: Rose Le Tourneau Williams (1885-1971); Mary A. Le Tourneau Taylor (1887-1947), who named a son Elmer L. Taylor (1918-2008) born the same year that his uncle (and presumably namesake), Private Elmer Le Tourneau, was killed in WWI; Delia M. Le Tourneau Klein (1891-1968); Henry Le Tourneau (1897-1984) who served in WWI and was honorably discharged; John Joseph Le Tourneau (1899-1964); Amanda M. Le Tourneau Fraser (?-1961)