Carl Fleischer

*No plaque located*

*The List of Liberty Row Names indicates the possible original location of the plaque*

Birth:  6/26/1895, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: R.F.D. 2, Brooklyn (Cleveland), OH at draft registration 

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; occupation Farmer in North Royalton, OH; claimed exemption on draft registration in order to support his parents and sisters; per 1916 City Directory, occupation Laborer

Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair dark brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/25/1918; Private

Service Number: 3487457

Deployment: 7/27/1918 from Halifax, Nova Scotia aboard SS Nagoya

Action: 1 Co 1 Inf Repl Regt to July 13/18; Hq 83 Div to Aug 14/18; Co F 61 Inf to death. Pvt St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. AEF July 27/18 to death; KIA Oct 13/18

Death: October 13, 1918 [one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: On 10/21/1918 and 1/13/1919, he was buried in two different gravesites at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Meuse, France. On 6/6/1921, remains were disinterred and prepared for return to US; 6/23/1921 remains were shipped from Antwerp, Belgium to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Somme arriving Hoboken 7/5/1921; 7/29/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving 7/30/1921 to the care of George Fleischer, father, 3342 W. 63rd St., Cleveland, OH; 8/3/1921 funeral at Ebenezer Evangelical Church, corner of Sargent Ave. and W. 65th St., followed by final burial at Riverside Cemetery, 3607 Pearl Rd., Cleveland, OH, Section 9 Lot 556 Grave 1; no photo of gravestone on Riverside Cemetery website

Next of Kin: Mrs. Anna D. Fleischer, mother, 3342 W. 63rd St., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: (see attached bio of father below) George Fleischer (1844-1926), born Zeiskam, Germany, emigrated 1884, occupation Farmer, first wife died 1892 and he remarried Anna M. Dosch in 1893 with whom he had at least 10 children including Private Carl Fleischer; Mother: Anna M. Dosch Fleischer (1866-1952), born Germany, emigrated ~1890, worked as a caregiver for the Fleischer family after the death of their first mother, married 1893; 1920 Census listed her as divorced and living with 7 children; Siblings: (incomplete list) Jacob; Margaret (1894-?); Lydia (1898-1987); Barbara (1898-?); Frederick; Martha (1904-1993); Sophia (1906-1910); Emma; Esther; and possibly others. Both parents and several siblings buried at Riverside Cemetery.