W. H. Stratman 

William Herbert Stratman

Birth: 2/19/1894, Cleveland, OH

Address: 2366 E. 85th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Salesman at Spartan Sales Company, Cleveland, OH; listed dependent as "one sister;" claimed exemption due to "cannot pass examination;" disability listed as "acute Bright's disease" (known today as acute nephritis)

Appearance: Height tall; Build slender; Eyes blue; Hair light brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/28/1918; Private First Class

Service Number: 2431141

Deployment: 6/8/1918 from New York aboard RMS Aquitania

Action: 2 Co 1 Bn 158 Dep Brig to May 2/18; Co D 329 Inf to May 17/18; Hq Tr 83 Div 2 Dep to death. Pvt Apr 28/18; Pvt 1cl Oct 14/18. AEF June 8/18 to death. Died of meningitis Mch 15/19.

Death: March 15, 1919 at LeMans, France at age 25; cause of death Meningitis

Burial: temporary burial at LeMans, France; remains disinterred 7/9/1920 and taken to Brest, France on 7/19/1920 for shipment to Hoboken, New Jersey on 7/22/1920 aboard SS Antigone; remains arrived Hoboken on 8/7/1920; remains shipped to Cleveland, OH on 8/13/1920 and were received on 8/14/1920 by J. & W. Koebler Undertakers, E. 55th St., Cleveland, OH; Funeral 8/16/1920 at 2 pm from Koebler's Parlors, 2340 E. 55th St., Cleveland, OH, burial private; burial Woodland Cemetery then remains transferred in the 1940s to his final resting place at Knollwood Cemetery Mausoleum, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH

Next of Kin: Mrs. Alvina Stratman, mother, 2366 E. 85th St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Fred W. Stratman (1870-1952), born Ohio, of German ancestry, occupation Vice-President Hipp Parcel Delivery Company, 2715 Harrison Rd., Cleveland, OH; Mother: Alvina J. Hain Stratman (?-1954), born Ohio, of German ancestry; Sibling: Arline Stratman Ramsey (1908-1958); several family members buried at Knollwood Cemetery, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH