Cecil Roy Downs
(1893-1918)
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SS Leviathan
Gravestone, Private Cecil Roy Downs, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Cecil Roy Downs
*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: New Year's Day, 1/1/1893, Salem or Gloucester, Massachusetts
Birth: New Year's Day, 1/1/1893, Salem or Gloucester, Massachusetts
Address: 1160 E. 112th St., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation at draft registration Chauffeur at Fuller [illegible] at 7606 Carnegie; requested exemption from draft due to "defective eyes"
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not recorded; enlistment date 9/18/1917
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not recorded; enlistment date 9/18/1917
Service Number: 749589
Deployment: 4/24/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Leviathan
Action:
Death: October 25, 1918 [less than one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 25; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: October 25, 1918 [less than one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 25; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: buried in an isolated grave after death in Meuse, France; 6/17/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France; 7/21/1921 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 arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/14/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/16/1921 to the care of L.S. Downs [father], 1671 Delmont Ave.; final burial Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 4 Lot 602-0 alongside parents buried later
Burial: buried in an isolated grave after death in Meuse, France; 6/17/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France; 7/21/1921 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 arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/14/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/16/1921 to the care of L.S. Downs [father], 1671 Delmont Ave.; final burial Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 4 Lot 602-0 alongside parents buried later
Next of Kin: Mrs. Millicent Jennie Downs, mother, 1671 Delmont Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Lincoln S. Downs (1865-1955), born Porter, Maine to a mother who was part of the founding family of Porter, Maine, married 1890, moved to Cleveland 1905, lived in Solon, OH for a time, occupations included Salesman and Farmer, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Millicent Jennie Borden Downs (1870-1932), born Thompson, Connecticut, [purportedly a cousin of the infamous American woman Lizzie Borden], married 1890, moved to Cleveland 1905, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Lincoln Guy Downs (1891-1942), who had a son named Roy born in 1925 [presumably the namesake of Private Cecil Roy Downs]; Edward Schuyler Downs (1895-1980), who served in World War I
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