Edward Frank Fringer
(1889-1918)
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USS Great Northern
Veterans' area marker at Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Sibling List
Edward Frank Fringer
*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: 12/5/1889, Cleveland, Ohio
Birth: 12/5/1889, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: address listed as Cleveland and Galveston, Texas on military records; parents' address 7306 Colfax Rd., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: no draft registration found which would have contained additional demographic information; Caucasian; Cleveland City Directories list occupations as Core Maker and Teamster
Appearance: not known
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft registration not found; enlistment date not known; Sergeant First Class
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft registration not found; enlistment date not known; Sergeant First Class
Service Number: 2338679
Deployment: 4/6/1918 from Newport News, Virginia aboard USS Great Northern
Action:
Death: October 23, 1918 [less than 3 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 28; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: October 23, 1918 [less than 3 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 28; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 10/24/1918 buried locally after death at the French Military Cemetery at Fromereville, Meuse, France; 6/9/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Lorraine, France; 7/28/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to the U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium on 8/12/1921; 9/1/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Cantigny arriving Hoboken 9/13/1921; 9/21/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/23/1921 to the care of W.A. Nunn [undertaker], 8101 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH; final burial 9/27/1921 at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Section 3 Lot 3 Tier 2 Grave 8 [no grave photo on cemetery website]
Burial: 10/24/1918 buried locally after death at the French Military Cemetery at Fromereville, Meuse, France; 6/9/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Lorraine, France; 7/28/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to the U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium on 8/12/1921; 9/1/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Cantigny arriving Hoboken 9/13/1921; 9/21/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving Cleveland 9/23/1921 to the care of W.A. Nunn [undertaker], 8101 Woodland Ave., Cleveland, OH; final burial 9/27/1921 at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Section 3 Lot 3 Tier 2 Grave 8 [no grave photo on cemetery website]
Next of Kin: Harry Fringer, father, 7306 Colfax Rd., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Harry Albert Fringer (1868-1926), born Switzerland-Germany, emigrated ~1873, married 1887, occupation Core Maker (moulder) at Iron Foundry, buried Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Mother: Julia Capek Fringer (1867-1941), born Austria-Bohemia, emigrated ~1882, married 1887, had at least 10 children, buried Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, OH; Siblings: See sibling list at left. Sibling list may be incomplete.
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