Henry Francis Brabo Jr.
(1895 -1918)
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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
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, the U.S. Armed Forces third-highest military honor.*
*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
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]
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]
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]
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
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). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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