Dwight Leslie Deckert
(1897-1918)
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Private First Class, Dwight Leslie Deckert
SS Hororata
Private First Class, Dwight Leslie Deckert and his mother
Gravestone, Private First Class, Dwight Leslie Deckert, Grandview Cemetery, Southmont, PA
10703 Lee Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, address given at WWI draft registration
Dwight Leslie Deckert
*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: 2/27/1897, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Birth: 2/27/1897, Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Address: 10703 Lee Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: Caucasian; native-born citizen; no draft registration card found which would have contained additional demographic information
Appearance: see photo at left
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 4/16/1918; rank Private First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 4/16/1918; rank Private First Class
Service Number: 440977
Deployment: 6/28/1918 from New York City aboard SS Hororata
Action: [The 135th Artillery was a local Ohio National Guard unit.]
Death: November 8, 1918 [3 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 21; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: November 8, 1918 [3 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 21; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 11/8/1918 buried in isolated grave in Meuse, France; 5/15/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France; 4/12/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/5/1921; 5/23/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ arriving Hoboken 6/6/1921; 6/16/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Johnstown, PA arriving 6/16/1921 to the care of W.J. Young, 168 Hay Ave., Johnstown, PA and to the soldier's father Edgar Frank Deckert; final burial 6/18/1921 at Grandview Cemetery, 801 Millcreek Rd., Southmont, PA, Edgewood 4 Lot 40 alongside his parents buried later
Burial: 11/8/1918 buried in isolated grave in Meuse, France; 5/15/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France; 4/12/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 5/5/1921; 5/23/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ arriving Hoboken 6/6/1921; 6/16/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Johnstown, PA arriving 6/16/1921 to the care of W.J. Young, 168 Hay Ave., Johnstown, PA and to the soldier's father Edgar Frank Deckert; final burial 6/18/1921 at Grandview Cemetery, 801 Millcreek Rd., Southmont, PA, Edgewood 4 Lot 40 alongside his parents buried later
Next of Kin: Mrs. Agnes Deckert, mother, 10703 Lee Ave., Cleveland, OH and 2101 Stillman Rd., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Private First Class Dwight Leslie Deckert appears to have been an only child. His paternal grandfather was a Corporal in the Civil War. The Deckert family was living in the region of the devastating 1889 Johnstown, PA flood. Father: Edgar Frank Deckert (1870-1958), born Pennsylvania of several generations of Pennsylvanians, married 1894 and remarried after the death of his first wife, occupation Accountant in 1900 and Assistant Sales Manager in 1910, buried Grandview Cemetery, Southmont, PA alongside his first wife and son Private First Class Dwight Leslie Deckert; Mother: Agnes Williams Deckert (1871-1935), born Pennsylvania of Welsh and English ancestry, married 1894, buried Grandview Cemetery, Southmont, PA alongside her husband and son Private First Class Dwight Leslie Deckert
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