Emil Hugo Forsberg
(1893-1918)
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Private Emil Hugo Forsberg, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Carpathia
Gravestone, Private Emil Hugo Forsberg, Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Emil Hugo Forsberg
*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: 7/16/1893, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Birth: 7/16/1893, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Address: 8018 Crumb Ave., Cleveland, Ohio
Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born citizen; occupation Painter at George Herrow Co., Cleveland, OH; per 1910 Census at age 16 occupation Grocery Driver; claimed draft exemption due to "Ruptured" [no further description]
Appearance: Height tall, Build slender, Eyes blue, Hair light
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: 2478774
Deployment: 6/12/1918 from New York, NY aboard SS Carpathia
Action:
Death: October 6, 1918 [~one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 25; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: October 6, 1918 [~one month before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 25; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 10/6/1918 buried at Exermont, France; 5/2/1919 remains disinterred at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France; 5/23/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Antwerp, Belgium 7/3/1921; 8/6/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/7/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/9/1921 to the care of Marie Forsberg, mother, 8018 Crumb Ave., Cleveland, OH and F. Zielman & Co.; final burial 9/13/1921 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 4 Lot 544-0, alongside his parents
Burial: 10/6/1918 buried at Exermont, France; 5/2/1919 remains disinterred at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France; 5/23/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to US arriving Antwerp, Belgium 7/3/1921; 8/6/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 8/20/1921; 9/7/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/9/1921 to the care of Marie Forsberg, mother, 8018 Crumb Ave., Cleveland, OH and F. Zielman & Co.; final burial 9/13/1921 at Lake View Cemetery, 12316 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH, Section 4 Lot 544-0, alongside his parents
Next of Kin: Gust [Gustave] Forsberg, father, 8018 Crumb Ave., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Gustaf aka Gustave and Gustav Forsberg (1865-1920), born Sweden, emigrated ~1891, occupations House Painter and Paper Hanger, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; did not live to see his son Private Emil Hugo Forsberg return home for final burial; Mother: Marie T. Forsberg (1857-1941), born Sweden, emigrated ~1892, had at least 6 children, buried Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: Alfred Forsberg (1886-?); Ellen Forsberg Johnson (1887-1966); Emma Forsberg (1888-?); Elsie M. Forsberg Fink (1896-1933). Sibling list may be incomplete.
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