Emil F. Faflik
(1898-1918)
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USS H.R. Mallory
Private Emil F. Faflik's mother, Mary Zeman Faflik Rauen
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Private Emil F. Faflik's father, Joseph G. Faflik
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Sibling list with photos of some of Private Emil F. Faflik’s siblings
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Gravestone, Private Emil F. Faflik, Saint Mary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Death notice from unknown publication
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Emil F. Faflik
*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: 12/9/1898, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 12/9/1898, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 3354 W. 30th St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: no draft registration found, which would have contained additional demographic information; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; 1916 and 1917 City Directory show that his occupation was Butcher
Appearance: not known
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 6/23/1916; Private [also noted as Corporal]
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlistment date 6/23/1916; Private [also noted as Corporal]
Service Number: 92642
Deployment: 10/18/1917 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard USS H.R. Mallory
Action: Served with the famed Rainbow Division, a composite of National Guard divisions from 26 states, including Ohio, and the District of Columbia. It saw intensive action from late 1917 to 1918 and sustained heavy casualties.
Death: August 1, 1918 at age 19 "...struck by a shell in the action at Chateau-Thierry" [findagrave.com]; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: August 1, 1918 at age 19 "...struck by a shell in the action at Chateau-Thierry" [findagrave.com]; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: buried locally after death at Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France; 4/13/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 6/13/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/13/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/15/1921 to the care of Mrs. Harry Faflik Rauen, mother, 3354 W. 30th St., Cleveland, OH, final burial Saint Mary Cemetery at W. 41st and Clark, Lot 24 Section A Grave 1 after Requiem Mass at Holy Family Church and St. Prokop's Church, Cleveland, OH
Burial: buried locally after death at Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France; 4/13/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 6/13/1921; 6/19/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 7/2/1921; 7/13/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 7/15/1921 to the care of Mrs. Harry Faflik Rauen, mother, 3354 W. 30th St., Cleveland, OH, final burial Saint Mary Cemetery at W. 41st and Clark, Lot 24 Section A Grave 1 after Requiem Mass at Holy Family Church and St. Prokop's Church, Cleveland, OH
Next of Kin: Miss Mildred Faflik, sister, 3354 W. 30th St., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Joseph G. Faflik (1866-1902), born South Bohemia, Czechia, emigrated ~1874, married 1887, occupation Mail Carrier, died at age 35 of cardiac insufficiency, buried at Saint Mary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Mary Zemen Faflik Rauen (1871-1934), born South Bohemia, Czechia, emigrated ~1880, married 1887, had at least 8 children, remarried 1910 to Herman Rauen, a Tailor who was born in Germany and emigrated 1905, buried Saint Mary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: See sibling list at left. Sibling list may be incomplete. Brother Alfred Faflik had a son who died in France in World War II.
Chateau-Thierry Monument, dedicated 1937, to honor the American and French WWI soldiers who died nearby
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3354 W. 30th St., Cleveland, OH, address given at WWI draft registration
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