Charles Shively Brokaw
(1898-1918)
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Corporal Charles Shively Brokaw Photo Credit: ancestry.com
Corporal Charles Shively Brokaw Photo Credit: ancestry.com
SS Susquehanna
Gravestone, Corporal Charles Shively Brokaw, Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Gravestone, Corporal Charles Shively Brokaw, Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium
Charles Shively Brokaw
Charles Shively Brokaw
[No records were found for Chas. Brakaw, as the name appeared on the List of Liberty Row Names. Records were found for Cleveland soldier Charles Shively Brokaw who died in WWI, and whose profile is below.]
[No records were found for Chas. Brakaw, as the name appeared on the List of Liberty Row Names. Records were found for Cleveland soldier Charles Shively Brokaw who died in WWI, and whose profile is below.]
*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: 1/5/1898, Phillipsburg, Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey
Birth: 1/5/1898, Phillipsburg, Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey
Address: 2135 Adelbert Rd., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: draft registration not found which would have contained additional demographic information; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Student at Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Per findagrave.com and the Brokaw-Bragaw Family History Book on ancestry.com, Charles Shively Brokaw came to Cleveland to attend college. His family had moved to Colorado in 1908, where his father served as Deputy Sheriff in Portland, Colorado. His family moved again to California, where his father was a foreman in a cement plant in Colton, California. The parents separated. Charles Shively Brokaw was a graduate of Colton High School Class of 1916, where he played baseball and basketball. He was the school's first student to die in WWI.
Appearance: see photo at left
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 5/7/1917; rank Corporal
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 5/7/1917; rank Corporal
Service Number: 1529792
Deployment: 6/22/1918 from Newport News, Virginia aboard SS Susquehanna
Action:
Death: October 31, 1918 [11 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] in Belgium at age 20; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: October 31, 1918 [11 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] in Belgium at age 20; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: buried after death at American Cemetery at Olsene, East Flanders, Belgium; 6/4/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at American Military Cemetery, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium; final burial on 6/13/1922 at Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium, Plot A Row 2 Grave 20
Burial: buried after death at American Cemetery at Olsene, East Flanders, Belgium; 6/4/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at American Military Cemetery, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium; final burial on 6/13/1922 at Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial, Waregem, West Flanders, Belgium, Plot A Row 2 Grave 20
Next of Kin: William H. Brokaw, father, 220 E. Main St., Colton, California
Additional Information: Father: William Hyler Brokaw (1875-1945), born New Jersey, married 1896, later remarried, occupation 1900 Farmer [see demographic section above], buried Hermosa Gardens Cemetery, Colton, California; Mother: Bertha Shively Brokaw (1879-?before 1919), born Pennsylvania, married 1896, had at least 4 children, burial information not found; Siblings: John Raymond Brokaw (1899-1990) who served in WWI; Dorothy Brokaw (1907-?). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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