Howard Brandt Duncan
(1894-1918)
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Private First Class Howard Brandt Duncan, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Carmania
Gravestone, Private First Class Howard Brandt Duncan, Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
Howard Brandt Duncan
*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: 10/5/1894, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Birth: 10/5/1894, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania
Address: Raymond Rd., Maple Heights, Ohio
Demographics:age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Poultry Man in Maple Heights, OH; claimed exemption from the draft due to "production of food"
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes blue, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/1/1917; Private First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 11/1/1917; Private First Class
Service Number: 1962233
Deployment: 6/12/1918 from New York, NY aboard SS Carmania
Action:
Death: September 29, 1918 [~6 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: September 29, 1918 [~6 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 10/1/1918 buried locally at Old Hickory #3 Military Cemetery, Pontru, Aisne, France; 6/5/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France; 12/20/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Calais, France 1/29/1921; 2/27/1921 remains shipped from Calais to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Somme arriving Hoboken 3/14/1921; 3/29/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 3/31/1921 to the care of The J.&W. Koebler Co. at 2340 Euclid Station, Cleveland, OH; final burial 4/1/1921 at Knollwood Cemetery, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH, Lot 604 Section 21 alongside his parents buried later, after a funeral at Sixth United Presbyterian Church at Hayden and Castalia Aves., Cleveland, OH
Burial: 10/1/1918 buried locally at Old Hickory #3 Military Cemetery, Pontru, Aisne, France; 6/5/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France; 12/20/1920 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Calais, France 1/29/1921; 2/27/1921 remains shipped from Calais to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Somme arriving Hoboken 3/14/1921; 3/29/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 3/31/1921 to the care of The J.&W. Koebler Co. at 2340 Euclid Station, Cleveland, OH; final burial 4/1/1921 at Knollwood Cemetery, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH, Lot 604 Section 21 alongside his parents buried later, after a funeral at Sixth United Presbyterian Church at Hayden and Castalia Aves., Cleveland, OH
Next of Kin: Joseph A. Duncan, father, 13711 Rugby Rd., Cleveland, OH and RFD #2, Bedford, OH
Additional Information: Father: Joseph A. Duncan (1865-1928), born Pennsylvania of Scottish ancestry, married 1888, occupations Toolmaker and Draftsman in Auto Industry, buried Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH; Mother: Martha "Mattie" McKelvy Duncan (1860-1944), born Ohio of Irish and Ohio ancestry, married 1888, buried Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH; Siblings: Joseph Boyd Duncan (1889-1935), who also served in WWI; William Lawrence Duncan (1892-1963); Cecil R. Duncan (1896-1974). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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