Frank S. Storm

Frank Stanley Storm (born Frank Kurzawa

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Birth: 10/3/1891 or 1892. Cleveland, OH or Van Wert, OH

Address: 711 Literary Rd., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Brakeman at Big Four Railroad, Cleveland, OH (also known as the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway and operated in the midwestern United States in affiliation with the New York Central system)

Appearance: Height medium; Build medium; Eyes gray; Hair blond

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 5/31/1917; 5/23/1918; Private

Service Number: 2657365 

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

Action: 20 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga to July 13/18; Co A 163 Inf to Aug 17/18; Co I 28 Inf to death. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 22/18 to death. KIA Oct 1/18. Cited in GO 11 Div date Jan 1/20 

Death: October 1, 9 or 19, 1918; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: initially buried in Ardennes, France (presumably at Ardennes Forest battleground); reburied 5/3/1919 in a temporary plot in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France; final burial 3/1/1922 in permanent plot at Meuse-Argonne: Grave 29 Row 29 Block C 

Next of Kin: Mrs. Sophy (elsewhere Sophie and Sophia) Kurzawa, mother, 2914 W. 14th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Frank Kurzawa (1864-1946), born "Hungary-Austria-Polish," immigrated 1896, occupation Laborer Steel Mill; Mother: Sophia Stanek Kurzawa (1868-1923), born "Hungary-Austria-Polish," immigrated 1891; Siblings: Stanley Kurzawa (1895-1930), who had a son named Frank (presumably named after his deceased uncle); Anna Kurzawa Kay (1897-1966), who also named a son Frank who died in World War II, and was buried in Ardennes, Belgium