Henry Francis Brabo, Jr.

(1895 -1918)

Henry Francis Brabo, Jr., signature on WWI draft registration

SS Grampian

Silver Star, the U.S. Armed Forces third- highest military honor

Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH, final resting place of Private or Corporal Henry Francis Brabo, Jr. and his family

Henry Francis Brabo, Jr.

*Corporal Henry Francis Brabo, Jr. was awarded the Silver Star. for valor in combat.

*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: 10/28/1895, Chicago, Illinois

Address: 2106 W. 25th St., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Driver at Ranney Fish Co., Cleveland, OH

Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes gray, Hair dark

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/25/1918; Corporal [also noted to be a Private]

Service Number: 2657650

Deployment: 7/21/1918 from New York aboard SS Grampian

Action: Corporal Henry Francis Brabo, Jr. was awarded the Silver Star, the U.S. Armed Forces third-highest military decoration for valor in combat.

Death: October 4, 1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 22; cause of death Killed in Action [listed as Missing in Action from 10/1-10/11/1918 per Fold3.com]

Burial: buried locally after death in France; 6/18/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Argonne American Cemetery, Meuse, France; 8/6/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium on 7/23/1921; 8/6/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 8/31/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/2/1921 to the care of George C. Lang, Undertaker, and Mrs. Ella G. Dowe, mother, 2808 Chatham Ave., Cleveland, OH. On 9/7/1921 a military funeral was held at his mother's home and at Franklin M.E. Church followed by final burial at Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadview Rd., Cleveland, OH, Section 3 Lot 398 Grave 1N [no gravestone photo on cemetery website]

Next of Kin: Mrs. Ella G. Dowe, mother, 2808 Chatham Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Corporal Henry Francis Brabo's parents divorced, and his mother remarried in 1912. Father: Henry Brabo (1868-1929), born New York of French and Canadian ancestry, occupations Ship Caulker and Ship Painter, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Stepfather: Frank A. Dowe (1885-1928); Mother: Ella G. White Dowe (1874-1958), born Canada of Canadian and English ancestry, emigrated ~1878, on 8/13/1930 applied for an unmarked, government-issued gravestone for her deceased son, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside her second husband, her daughter, and her deceased son Corporal Henry Francis Brabo, Jr.; Siblings: Sadie E. Brabo Rose (1892-1953)

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