Victor Lionel Klein
(1895-1918)
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Victor Lionel Klein
Victor Lionel Klein
Photo Credit: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
SS Diomed
Private Victor Lionel Klein gravestone, Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Victor Lionel Klein (surname misspelled in photo caption at left)
Victor Lionel Klein (surname misspelled in photo caption at left)
*No plaque located*
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*
Birth: 9/18/1895, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 9/18/1895, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 18 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Seaman but unemployed at time of draft registration; natural born citizen
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair dark
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date 5/24/1918; rank Private to Corporal to Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date 5/24/1918; rank Private to Corporal to Private
Service Number: 3487187
Deployment: 7/22/1918 from Brooklyn, NY aboard SS Diomed
Action: 4 Co 1 Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga to July 14/18; 4 July Aut Repl Regt to Aug 12/18: Co D 116 Engrs to Sept 19/18; Co D 4 Engrs to death; Meuse-Argonne. AEF July 21/18 to death
Death: October 7, 1918 (35 days before Armistice Day November 11, 1918) at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action in evacuation hospital No. 6 at Souilly-Sur-Meuse, France
Death: October 7, 1918 (35 days before Armistice Day November 11, 1918) at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action in evacuation hospital No. 6 at Souilly-Sur-Meuse, France
Burial: buried American Cemetery Souilly (Meuse), France; remains disinterred 4/6/1921 for shipment to U.S. and shipped to Antwerp, Belgium, arriving Antwerp 5/1/1921; remains shipped to Hoboken, NJ 6/19/1921 aboard U.S.A.T Wheaton, arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; remains shipped to Cleveland, OH 7/29/1921 and received 7/30/1921 to the care of Mrs. Aimee A. Connors, mother, 18 Lakeside Ave. NE, Cleveland, OH; 8/2/1918 military service held at Old Stone Church, 91 Public Square, Cleveland, OH; final burial 8/2/1921 alongside his father at Woodland Cemetery, 6901 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 49 Lot 144 Grave 2-S-L
Burial: buried American Cemetery Souilly (Meuse), France; remains disinterred 4/6/1921 for shipment to U.S. and shipped to Antwerp, Belgium, arriving Antwerp 5/1/1921; remains shipped to Hoboken, NJ 6/19/1921 aboard U.S.A.T Wheaton, arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; remains shipped to Cleveland, OH 7/29/1921 and received 7/30/1921 to the care of Mrs. Aimee A. Connors, mother, 18 Lakeside Ave. NE, Cleveland, OH; 8/2/1918 military service held at Old Stone Church, 91 Public Square, Cleveland, OH; final burial 8/2/1921 alongside his father at Woodland Cemetery, 6901 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 49 Lot 144 Grave 2-S-L
Next of Kin: Mrs. Aimee A. Conners, mother, 18 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland, OH
Next of Kin: Mrs. Aimee A. Conners, mother, 18 Lakeside Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Victor Lionel Klein was an only child. He was buried at Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland, OH along with his parents, sharing a tombstone. Father: Henry B. Klein (1863-1900), born Germany, died at age 37 in a railroad accident when Victor was 5 years old; Mother: Aimee Armstrong Klein Connors (1871-1946), born Shiloh, Richland County, OH, was married 3 times and managed a boarding house, her father was described as a doctor who served in the Civil War and died in his 30's
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