Robert David Fleming
(1892-1918)
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Private Robert David Fleming, signature on WWI draft registration
Gravestone, Private Robert David Fleming, Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA
Sibling List
Robert David Fleming
*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: 3/15/1892, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Birth: 3/15/1892, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Address: 10511 Greenlawn Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 25 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Woodworker employed by his father at 4401 Broadway, Cleveland, OH
Appearance: Height tall, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair brown; index finger on left hand partially cut off, as per description on draft registration
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/25/1918; Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 4/25/1918; Private
Service Number: 2478773
Deployment: deployment record not found
Action:
Death: October 4, 1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 26; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: October 4, 1918 [5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 26; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 10/19/18 buried at a cemetery in Exermont, France; 6/5/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France; 7/22/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Antwerp, Belgium 7/23/1921; 8/6/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/12/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Pittsburgh, PA arriving Pittsburgh 9/13/1921 to the care of William L. Fleming [brother]; final burial at Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA, Division 3 Section C Range 10, alongside his parents
Burial: 10/19/18 buried at a cemetery in Exermont, France; 6/5/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France; 7/22/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Antwerp, Belgium 7/23/1921; 8/6/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/12/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Pittsburgh, PA arriving Pittsburgh 9/13/1921 to the care of William L. Fleming [brother]; final burial at Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA, Division 3 Section C Range 10, alongside his parents
Next of Kin: Robert Fleming, father, 4401 Broadway, Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Robert Fleming (1859-1931), born Scotland, occupation Cabinet Maker in his own shop, remarried 1915 after the death of his first wife in 1907, buried Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA; Mother: Katherine McFarlane Fleming (1863-1907), born Scotland, buried Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, PA; Siblings: see Sibling List at left
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