Robert Henry Ellis
(1895-1918)
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PFC Wagoner Robert Henry Ellis
USS Great Northern
PFC Wagoner Robert Henry Ellis, signature on WWI draft registration
PFC Wagoner Robert Henry Ellis’ mother Joyce Long Ellis Jones
Gravestone, PFC Wagoner Robert Henry Ellis, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA
Robert Henry Ellis
*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: 8/30/1895, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 8/30/1895, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 10721 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Receiving Clerk at New York Central Railroad, Cleveland, OH
Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair light
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/18/1917; Private First Class Wagoner
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/18/1917; Private First Class Wagoner
Service Number: 1946853
Deployment: 5/22/1918 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard USS Great Northern
Action:
Death: October 28, 1918 [2 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds
Death: October 28, 1918 [2 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Died of Wounds
Burial: 10/29/1918 buried after death at French Military Cemetery, Verdun-sur-Meuse, France; 5/17/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 6/?/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/18/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia arriving 7/19/1921 to the care of Eugene H. Sleeper, Captain Q.M.C.; final burial 7/25/1921 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA, European Section 18 Gravesite 3124
Burial: 10/29/1918 buried after death at French Military Cemetery, Verdun-sur-Meuse, France; 5/17/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 6/?/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/18/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia arriving 7/19/1921 to the care of Eugene H. Sleeper, Captain Q.M.C.; final burial 7/25/1921 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA, European Section 18 Gravesite 3124
Next of Kin: Joyce Ellis, mother, 10721 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Thomas Ellis (1857-1917), born Wales, emigrated ~1886, married 1889, occupation Stationary Engineer, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Joyce Long Ellis Jones (1868-1963), born Rumney, Cardiff, Wales, emigrated ~1889, married 1889, remarried Philip C. Jones 1919, occupation Janitress at Library, buried Acacia Masonic Memorial Park Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH; Siblings: Phillip Thomas Ellis (1890-1891); John George Ellis Jones (1891-1938); Claude Ellis Jones (1896-1974); Lillian Ellis Langenheim (1894-1968). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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