Paul Braverman
(1886-1918)
Embedded Files
Paul Braverman, signature on WWI draft registration card
SS Corsican
Gravestone with Jewish Star of David, Private and Private First Class Paul Braverman, Somme American Cemetery, Bony (Aisne), France
WWI Mothers and Widows Pilgrimage pin
Paul Braverman
*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: 10/23/1886, Craiova, Dolj County, Romania
Birth: 10/23/1886, Craiova, Dolj County, Romania
Address: 1577 E. 86th St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 30 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; declarant for citizenship; religion Jewish; occupation Insurance Manager at Commonwealth [illegible] 313 American Trust Building
Appearance: Height medium, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair black
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 12/3/1917; Private and Private First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 12/3/1917; Private and Private First Class
Service Number: 1962381
Marriage: 11/20/1917 at age 31 to Dorothy B. Wilson (1896-1991), age 21, a Telephone Operator who had been married once previously and had a child who was born in 1914. After the death of her husband in WWI, widow Dorothy B. Wilson Braverman sailed on 5/7/1930 aboard the SS America to visit his grave as part of the U.S. WWI Mothers and Widows Pilgrimage. She married one additional time [surname Gleason] and died at age 95.
Deployment: 6/11/1918 from New York aboard SS Corsican
Action:
Death: October 17, 1918 [3 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 31; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: October 17, 1918 [3 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 31; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 10/19/1918 buried locally in Aisne, France; remains disinterred and reburied twice in France before final burial on 10/13/1922 at Somme American Cemetery, Bony (Aisne), France, Plot D Row 21 Grave 4 where the Jewish Star of David marks his grave
Burial: 10/19/1918 buried locally in Aisne, France; remains disinterred and reburied twice in France before final burial on 10/13/1922 at Somme American Cemetery, Bony (Aisne), France, Plot D Row 21 Grave 4 where the Jewish Star of David marks his grave
Next of Kin: Mrs. Dorothy Mae Beebe Wilson Braverman, wife, who had multiple Cleveland addresses listed: 3373 W. 25th St., 2200 Portman Ave., and 3054 W. 11th St.
Next of Kin: Mrs. Dorothy Mae Beebe Wilson Braverman, wife, who had multiple Cleveland addresses listed: 3373 W. 25th St., 2200 Portman Ave., and 3054 W. 11th St.
Additional Information: Parents may have been Samuel Braverman and Anna Gross Braverman. On Private Paul Braverman's WWI Burial Card [ancestry.com], it was noted: "Mother insane" and "no record of father." The mother's address was given as 2245 Post St., San Francisco, CA. A sister was noted to be Elise Braverman, 930 St. Nicholas Ave., New York, NY. No additional information was found.
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