Arthur Jay Beattie

Arthur Jay Beattie

*Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (for extraordinary gallantry and self-sacrifice in combat, second only to the Medal of Honor)

*No plaque found

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque.

*No soldier photograph found in the following book: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.

Birth: 5/6/1895, Norwalk, Ohio

Address: 137 Benedict Ave., Norwalk, OH

Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation at time of draft registration Candidate for Officers' Reserve Corps, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes blue, Hair black

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 8/15/1917; First Lieutenant

Service Number: not found

Deployment: 9/11/1917 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Mongolia

Action: First Lieutenant 167th Infantry Regiment, 42d Division, A.E.F.

Death: October 15, 1918 (one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918) at age 23 near Landres-et-Saint-Georges, Departement des Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot H Row 16 Grave 37

Next of Kin: A.M. Beattie, Norwalk, OH 

Additional Information: Father: Albert Milo Beattie (1853-1930), born Ruggles, Ohio of Scottish ancestry, occupation Lawyer, buried Woodlawn Cemetery, 200 Woodlawn Ave., Norwalk, OH; Mother: Lucy Theodora "Dora" Sullivan Beattie (1854-1935), born Albion, Pennsylvania, active in Baptist Church and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, married 1879, had 5 children, applied for a 1930 Gold Star Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage but sailing date not known, buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Norwalk, OH; Siblings: Blanche Dora Beattie (1880-1962); Anna B. Beattie ((1884-?); John W. Beattie (1885-?); Homer Milo Beattie (1889-1950) who was a Veteran Wagoner in WWI, a Forester for the U.S. Government, and employee of White Motor Co., Cleveland, OH; Walter Beattie. Sisters Anna and Blanche also lived in Cleveland at various times.