Frank Chegwyn
(1895-1918)
Embedded Files
Private Frank Chegwyn, signature on WWI draft registration
6/23/1918 photograph of wounded WWI soldiers at Vittel, France
Gravestone, Private Frank Chegwyn, Woodvale Cemetery, Middleburg Heights, OH
Private Frank Chegwyn's siblings
Frank Chegwyn [also spelled Checzwyn]
*No plaque found
*The List of Liberty Row Names does not include this soldier.
*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: 12/14/1895, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan [a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with an iron mining history]
Birth: 12/14/1895, Ishpeming, Marquette, Michigan [a town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with an iron mining history]
Address: 5517 Dorothy St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Stock Clerk at Republic Electric, E. 9th St., Cleveland, OH
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes brown, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/26/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/26/1918; Private
Service Number: 2482831
Deployment: no deployment record found
Action:
Death: November 19, 1918 at age 22 at Vittel, France [U.S. Army Base Hospital 36 was located in Vittel, FR and treated wounded Allied soldiers.]; cause of death Died of Wounds
Death: November 19, 1918 at age 22 at Vittel, France [U.S. Army Base Hospital 36 was located in Vittel, FR and treated wounded Allied soldiers.]; cause of death Died of Wounds
Burial: buried locally after death in the American Cemetery, Vittel, Vosges, France; 2/7/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Cherbourg, FR on 3/14/1921; 4/30/1921 remains shipped from Cherbourg to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken on 5/18/1921; 6/2/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 6/3/1921 to the care of Mr. Joseph Chegwyn, Berea, OH; final burial Woodvale Cemetery, 7535 Engle Rd., Middleburg Heights, OH, Section B Lot 265 Grave 5, after the funeral at Fannie Nast Gamble Auditorium, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH where WWI soldier Jacob Petschler also had his funeral the same day [their relationship not known]; buried alongside his father and at least one sibling buried later
Burial: buried locally after death in the American Cemetery, Vittel, Vosges, France; 2/7/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Cherbourg, FR on 3/14/1921; 4/30/1921 remains shipped from Cherbourg to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken on 5/18/1921; 6/2/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 6/3/1921 to the care of Mr. Joseph Chegwyn, Berea, OH; final burial Woodvale Cemetery, 7535 Engle Rd., Middleburg Heights, OH, Section B Lot 265 Grave 5, after the funeral at Fannie Nast Gamble Auditorium, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH where WWI soldier Jacob Petschler also had his funeral the same day [their relationship not known]; buried alongside his father and at least one sibling buried later
Next of Kin: Joe Chegwyn, father, RR#1, North Cumberland, OH and R.F.D. 1, North Olmstead, OH
Additional Information: Private Frank Chegwyn's mother died at around age 30 when he was about 6 years of age.
Father: Joseph Chegwyn (1870-1945), born Cornwall, England, emigrated ~1890 [many miners from Cornwall emigrated to Michigan around 1890 in search of better opportunity], occupation Iron Ore Miner, married 2 additional times after his first wife died in 1901, buried Woodvale Cemetery, Middleburg Heights, OH; Mother: Ann Anderson Chegwyn (1870-1901), born Norway, emigrated ~1890, married 1892, no additional information found; Siblings: see list at left. Sibling list may be incomplete.
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