Charles "Charlie" W. Quinn

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth: 12/1/1892, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 1307 W. 115th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Shipping Clerk at Victor Brass Manufacturing Co. at 6813 Wade Park; requested exemption due to rheumatism; at age 18 had been working as a Machine Operator at a Brass Foundry

Appearance: Height medium, Build stout, Eyes brown, Hair light

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/25/1918; Private

Service Number: 2658078

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from New York aboard SS Neleus 

Action: 14 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt 157 Dep Brig to July 12/18; 16 Co July Aug Repl Draft to Aug 10/18; Co E 163 Inf to Aug 27/18; Co H 23 Inf to death. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 22/18 to death.

Death: October 4, 1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 25; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action, also reported as Killed in Action 

Burial: 10/12/1918 buried locally in France after death; 4/3/1919 remains disinterred and reburied in American Cemetery, Ardenne, France; 6/17/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France; 7/18/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 7/23/1921; 8/6/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard USAT Wheaton arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/7/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/9/1921 to the care of Patrick Quinn, father, 1307 W. 115th St., Cleveland, OH; final burial on 9/9/1921 at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 38 Lot 68 Grave 1

Next of Kin: Patrick Quinn, father, 1307 W. 115th St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: 

Private Charles W. Quinn was the oldest child in his family. He deployed to serve in WWI 4 months after his mother died. Father: Patrick Quinn (1867-1926), born Ireland, emigrated 1887, occupations Day Laborer and Bridge Guard, buried Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH alongside his son Private Charles W. Quinn; Mother: Mary Kilcoyne Quinn (1872-1918), born Ireland, emigrated 1890, died 7 months before the death of her son Private Charles W. Quinn, with whom she shared a gravesite at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Sibling list may be incomplete: Mary Quinn Koch; Katherine Quinn Weshneski; Michael Edward Quinn; Joseph Quinn; Patrick Quinn; Thomas Quinn (1906-1949); James Quinn