William Phineas Worswick (middle initial on plaque is incorrect)

Birth: 6/21/1895, Cleveland, OH

Address: 2259 E. 84th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; natural-born citizen; occupation Shipping Clerk at National Acme Manufacturing Co., (one of the largest manufacturers of machine tools in the U.S., located primarily at Lakeside and E. 49th St., Cleveland, OH and slated for demolition in 2024)

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes gray, Hair brown; stated on draft registration that he had "flat feet"

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

Service Number: 3489849

Deployment: 7/21/1918 aboard SS Grampian from NY (Hoboken, NJ) as part of the Camp Gordon July Automatic Replacement Draft

Action: 18 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga July 12/18; Co A 163 Inf to Aug 17/18; Co D 28 Inf to death. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 21/18 to death

Death: October 7, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France

Next of Kin: Charles B. Worswick, father, 12432 Arlington Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Charles Benjamin Worswick (1861-1939), born Ohio, occupation Machinist/Toolmaker and later a Foreman at National Acme Manufacturing Co. (see above), his father William Worswick was in the Cleveland Fire Department when it was a volunteer organization; Mother: Bertha Hambrecht Worswick (1866-1934), born Germany, immigrated 1887, she applied for the WWI Mothers' Pilgrimage and desired pilgrimage in 1930; Sibling: Helen Worswick (Mrs. W. J. Barkhauer) (1897-1988), named her son Kenneth William, the middle name William presumably in memory of her grandfather and/or brother