Homer Willis North
(1897-1918)
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Homer Willis North
Homer Willis North
Photo Credit: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
Gravestone, Homer Willis North, Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gravestone, Homer Willis North, Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Homer Willis North's parents' home,
Homer Willis North's parents' home,
8401 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH
Homer Willis North
Homer Willis North
*No plaque located*
*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*
Birth: 9/24/1897, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 9/24/1897, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 8500 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH per 1916 Cleveland City Directory; parents' home 8401 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Student per 1916 Cleveland City Directory
Appearance: see photo
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: Draft date unknown; Enlistment date 5/25/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: Draft date unknown; Enlistment date 5/25/1918; Private
Service Number: 4604174
Deployment: not located
Action: USMC Parris Island SC; Co A 3 Sep Bn Quantico VA July 17/18; France Aug 26/18; 74 Co 6 Regt Sept 11/18. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. WIA Nov 1/18. AEF Aug 26/18 to death. Character excellent. File no 118246.
Death: Wounded in Action on November 1, 1918 in the Battle of the Argonne Forest; Died of Wounds on November 2, 1918 [9 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 21
Death: Wounded in Action on November 1, 1918 in the Battle of the Argonne Forest; Died of Wounds on November 2, 1918 [9 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 21
Burial: buried locally after death in a French military cemetery in Meuse, FR; 3/26/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/1/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard USAT Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/29/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/30/1921 to the care of Archie M. North, father, 8401 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH; 8/2/1921 final burial at Riverside Cemetery, 3607 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH, Lot 203 Section 3 Grave 1 alongside his parents' graves in later years
Burial: buried locally after death in a French military cemetery in Meuse, FR; 3/26/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/1/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard USAT Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/29/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/30/1921 to the care of Archie M. North, father, 8401 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH; 8/2/1921 final burial at Riverside Cemetery, 3607 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH, Lot 203 Section 3 Grave 1 alongside his parents' graves in later years
Next of Kin: Archie M. North, father, 8401 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH
Next of Kin: Archie M. North, father, 8401 Clark Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information:
Father: Archer Manson North (1867-1941), born Connecticut of several generations of family in Connecticut dating back to the 1700's and the Revolutionary War, occupation Printer for a Newspaper in 1900 and Printer for a Government Printing Office in Washington, DC in 1910; Mother: Myrtle Brice North (1869-1952), born Oberlin, Ohio of English ancestry, had 6 children; Siblings: Myrtle Bernice North Brunner (1889-1964); Clyde Monroe North (1890-1952), who served in the US Navy in WWI; Hazel Irene North Wedell (1893-1960); Carrie Louise North Meyers (1894-1930), who had a son named Homer Brice Meyers (1919-1944), a Lieutenant in the Air Force who died at age 25 in WWII, presumably named after his mother's deceased brother; Robert H. North (1905-1989)
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