Floyd Whitcomb Brisco
(1898-1918)
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Photo Credit: Doyle, A. C., Haulsee, W. M., Howe, F. G. Soldiers of the Great War. Washington, DC: Soldiers Record Publishing Company, 1920.
SS Leviathan
Description of battle from the Enoch Hayes Family History Book
Credit: ancestry.com
Description of the battle
Gravestone, Private First Class Floyd Whitcomb Brisco, Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Flanders Field
Sister Juniata Brisco entry in 1909 Yearbook, East High School, Cleveland, OH
Floyd Whitcomb Brisco
[Surname is also spelled Briscoe in some records.]
*No Plaque located
*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: 7/22/1898, Liberty, New York
Birth: 7/22/1898, Liberty, New York
Address: 3319 W. 97th St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: no draft registration found which would have contained additional demographic information; marital status not known; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation not known
Appearance: see photo at left
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 5/28/1917; rank Private First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 5/28/1917; rank Private First Class
Service Number: 1518909
Deployment: 6/15/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Leviathan
Action:
Death: November 2, 1918 [9 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 20 at Eyne [aka Eine], Belgium; cause of death Killed in Action [see description at left]
Death: November 2, 1918 [9 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 20 at Eyne [aka Eine], Belgium; cause of death Killed in Action [see description at left]
Burial: 11/2/1918 buried in isolated grave at Olsene, East Flanders, Belgium; 6/10/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium; final burial on 6/14/1922 at Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium, Plot B Row 4 Grave 10
Burial: 11/2/1918 buried in isolated grave at Olsene, East Flanders, Belgium; 6/10/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium; final burial on 6/14/1922 at Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium, Plot B Row 4 Grave 10
Next of Kin: J.E. Brisco, father, 334 Front St., Lawrenceburg, Indiana [his wife's place of birth]
Next of Kin: J.E. Brisco, father, 334 Front St., Lawrenceburg, Indiana [his wife's place of birth]
Additional Information: Father: Joel Edwin Brisco (1863-1935), born New York, married 1890, occupations included Wheelwright, Woodworker at Auto Co., Carriage Worker, Inspector, buried Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Indiana; Mother: Ida May Jenison Brisco (1865-1921), born Lawrenceburg, Indiana, married 1890, had 3 children of whom 2 survived to adulthood, buried Greendale Cemetery, Greendale, Indiana; Siblings: Juniata R. Brisco Wakelee (1891-1937) who had no children; Chiquita Brisco (1893-1894). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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