Philip Nazitto

Philip Nazitto 

(correct surname appears to be Nazitto)

Birth: 4/12/1891, San Fratello, Citta Metropolitana di Messina, Sicily, Italy 

Address: 15 Linden St., Oneida, NY at time of draft registration

Demographics: age 26 at draft registration; entered service from New York; single; Caucasian; occupation Finisher; declarant for U.S. citizenship

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

Service Number: 1738380 

Deployment: 5/20/1918 from Brooklyn, NY aboard SS Morvada

Action: Company "B" 309th Infantry, 78th Division; served in St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne, and Limey, FranceSt. Mihiel, Sept. 

Death: November 1, 1918 at age 27 (10 days before the Armistice November, 1918); cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France; Plot A Row 26 Grave 31

Next of Kin: Salvatore Tripodo, friend, 2129 Murray Hill, Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: on draft registration card he listed his father as a dependent