Allen Frederick Heine

Birth: 9/24/1893, Cleveland, OH

Address: Ellis Place, West Park, OH

Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Clerk at River Furnace Co., Cleveland, OH (may have been a colloquial name for one of several furnace companies located along the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland); occupation Bookkeeper at Railroad Office in 1910 at age 17

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair dark

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/27/1918; Private

Service Number: 3487464

Deployment: 7/27/1918 from Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard SS Nagoya

Action: 1 Co 1 Replacement Regiment Cp Gordon Ga to 13 July 1918; Co K 6 Infantry to death. Private Meuse-Argonne. American Expeditionary Forces 10 Aug 1918 to death.

Death: October 15, 1918 (one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918) at age 25 at Cunel, Lorraine, France; cause of death Died of Wounds. 

Burial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot C Row 32 Grave 27; findagrave.org page records the following: "His unit was operating just north of Cunel when he died of wounds." Cunel was the scene of intense fighting and heavy casualties of American and German forces during the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

Next of Kin: George Heine, father, West Park, OH

Additional Information: Father: George Heine (1867-1936), born Ohio of Swiss and German ancestry, occupation Grinder in tool industry and Fireman, buried Brooklyn Heights Cemetery, 4700 Broadview Rd., Cleveland, OH, remarried to Hildegarde Evanson (1873-1955) after the death of his first wife; Mother: Lydia A. Greiner Heine (1869-1909), first marriage lasted one year when her husband Joshua Holloway died in 1888, in second marriage shortly thereafter to George Heine she had 3 children, buried West Park Cemetery, 3942 Ridge Rd., Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Caroline A. Heine Evanson (1890-1974) who married her step-mother's brother; Alvinia Winifred Heine Woodman (1896-1974); half-sibling Ruth Virginia Heine Alexander (1912-2008)