Robert Clinton Bowyer
(1899-1918)
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Crown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg, OH, final resting place of Private or Corporal Robert Clinton Bowyer
Robert Clinton Bowyer
*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: 3/3/1899, Ithaca, New York
Birth: 3/3/1899, Ithaca, New York
Address: Parents' address: 4486 E. 126th St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: no draft registration card found which would have provided more demographic information; Caucasian; native-born citizen
Appearance: not known
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date USMC 5/14/1917 [also listed as 5/4/1917]; rank Corporal [also listed as Private]
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date USMC 5/14/1917 [also listed as 5/4/1917]; rank Corporal [also listed as Private]
Service Number: 117328
Deployment: not located
Action: The 5th Marine Regiment, as a whole, was twice awarded the Croix de Guerre with Palm for its performance in World War I [Wikipedia].
Death: 6/12/1918 Wounded in Action; 6/13/1918 Died of Wounds at age 19
Death: 6/12/1918 Wounded in Action; 6/13/1918 Died of Wounds at age 19
Burial: buried locally after death at La Ferte-sous- Jouarre, France; 4/6/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/9/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/21/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/22/1921 to the care of S.C. Glasier Undertakers, 9111 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH; 7/27/1921 burial at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH alongside previously deceased parents; 10/13/1931 final burial Crown Hill Cemetery, 8592 Darrow Rd., Twinsburg, OH, Lot 4 Block 12 Grave 3, after remains were removed on the same day from Highland Park Cemetery. [There was no gravestone photo on the Crown Hill Cemetery website.]
Burial: buried locally after death at La Ferte-sous- Jouarre, France; 4/6/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/9/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/21/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/22/1921 to the care of S.C. Glasier Undertakers, 9111 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH; 7/27/1921 burial at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH alongside previously deceased parents; 10/13/1931 final burial Crown Hill Cemetery, 8592 Darrow Rd., Twinsburg, OH, Lot 4 Block 12 Grave 3, after remains were removed on the same day from Highland Park Cemetery. [There was no gravestone photo on the Crown Hill Cemetery website.]
Next of Kin: not noted as such
Next of Kin: not noted as such
Additional Information: Corporal Robert Clinton Bowyer was the eldest child in his family. On 9/9/1930, Miss Marion E. Bowyer, sister, 4972 E. 88th St., Cleveland, OH, applied for an unmarked government-issued gravestone.
Father: Charles Warren Bowyer (1870-1926), born New York, married 1893, occupations Driver Catering Company, Farmer and Cabinet Maker, buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg, OH alongside wife and son Corporal Robert Clinton Bowyer; Mother: Hattie Louise Curry Bowyer (1871-1929), born Illinois, married 1893, buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Twinsburg, OH alongside husband and son Corporal Robert Clinton Bowyer; Siblings: Florence Bowyer, who appears to have died prior to 1929 per the Cleveland Necrology File; Marion Bowyer, who was a telephone operator per the Cleveland City Directories. No further family information was located.
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