Joseph H. "Joe" Chopp
(1894-1918)
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Private Joseph H. "Joe" Chopp, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Anchises
Gravestone, Private Joseph H. "Joe" Chopp, Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Joseph H. "Joe" Chopp
*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: 8/20/1894, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 8/20/1894, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 11702 Fairport Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Clerk at Associated Engineers Co., Cleveland, OH; 1910 Census showed him employed as a Stock Keeper at an Automobile Co. at age 16
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair brown
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/28/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/28/1918; Private
Service Number: 2478857
Deployment: 6/12/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Anchises
Action:
Death: November 2, 1918 [9 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 26; cause of death Died of Wounds
Death: November 2, 1918 [9 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 26; cause of death Died of Wounds
Burial: 11/3/1918 buried at American Cemetery, Staden, Belgium [Staden was a village near Ypres, an area where intense fighting took place in WWI]; 6/5/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at the Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waregem, Belgium; 3/19/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to the U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 3/23/1921; 4/22/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ arriving Hoboken 5/6/1921; 5/16/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 5/18/1921 to the care of Mr. James Chopp, The Millard [illegible] Paper Co, E. 150th St. Depot, Cleveland, OH; final burial 5/19/1921 at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Section 1 Lot 623 Grave 1 alongside his parents and brothers buried later
Burial: 11/3/1918 buried at American Cemetery, Staden, Belgium [Staden was a village near Ypres, an area where intense fighting took place in WWI]; 6/5/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at the Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waregem, Belgium; 3/19/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to the U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 3/23/1921; 4/22/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ arriving Hoboken 5/6/1921; 5/16/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 5/18/1921 to the care of Mr. James Chopp, The Millard [illegible] Paper Co, E. 150th St. Depot, Cleveland, OH; final burial 5/19/1921 at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Section 1 Lot 623 Grave 1 alongside his parents and brothers buried later
Next of Kin: Mrs. Mary C. Chopp, mother, 11702 Fairport Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: James Chopp (1869-1941), born Austria-Bohemia, emigrated ~1870, married 1890, occupation Machinist in 1900 and Automobile Assembler in 1910, buried Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Mary Cihak Chopp (1872-1964), born Austria-Bohemia, emigrated ~1885, married 1890, buried Highland Park Cemetery; Siblings: Clarence Chopp (1890-1969); Frank Chopp (1892-1976). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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