Harold Watson Cavanagh
(1895-1918)
Embedded Files
Image of a Baker Rauch & Lang Co. product
Harold Watson Cavanagh, signature on WWI draft registration
Gravestone, Private Harold Watson Cavanagh, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France
Harold Watson Cavanagh [also spelled Cavanaugh]
*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: 3/12/1895, Barryvale, Ontario, Canada
Birth: 3/12/1895, Barryvale, Ontario, Canada
Address: 2532 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 22 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; citizenship status Alien; occupation Cost Accountant at Baker Rauch & Lang Co., Cleveland, OH [a carriage and automotive company]; reported on draft registration being "[illegible] slow"
Appearance: Height short, Build slender, Eyes gray, Hair dark, described on draft registration as "Able Bodied"
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/24/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/24/1918; Private
Service Number: 3487165
Deployment: deployment record not found
Action:
Death: October 4, 1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds
Death: October 4, 1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds
Burial: buried locally after death in Meuse, France; remains disinterred and reburied twice before final burial on 10/20/1922 at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Block C Row 14 Grave 38
Burial: buried locally after death in Meuse, France; remains disinterred and reburied twice before final burial on 10/20/1922 at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Block C Row 14 Grave 38
Next of Kin: Mrs. Sarah Cavanagh, mother, 275 Main St., North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Additional Information: Father: Alonzo Watson Cavanagh (1847-1923), born Smith Falls, Ontario, Canada, married 1870, buried Saint John's Anglican Cemetery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada; Mother: Sarah Louisa Covell Cavanagh (1853-1926), born Leeds, Ontario, Canada, married 1870, buried Saint John's Anglican Cemetery, North Bay, Ontario, Canada; Siblings: George Cavanagh (1871-1871); Annie E. Cavanagh Wilson (1875-1912); Alice Cavanagh (1878-1878); Henrietta Cavanagh (1878-1940); Maggie Cavanagh (1880-1880); Arthur Herbert Cavanagh (1887-1983). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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