Harold A. Husband
(1895-1918)
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Quarter Master First Class Harold A. Husband
Credit: Shaw High School Yearbook, Cleveland, OH
Shaw High School WWI Memorial at Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gravestone, [cenotaph] Quarter Master First Class Harold A. Husband, Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH
U.S. Navy insignia with anchor on gravestone
WWI Burial Card with notation “LAS,” or "lost at sea"
WWI Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage pin
Harold A. Husband
*No plaque located*
*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: 6/2/1895, Toronto, Canada
Birth: 6/2/1895, Toronto, Canada
Address: 922 Rose Building, Cleveland [presumably father's place of employment]; 51 Belmore Rd., Cleveland, OH [parents' residence]
Demographics: entered military service from Michigan; no draft registration found; Caucasian; presumably single; Shaw High School, Cleveland, OH where he was the Secretary and Treasurer of the junior class, first tenor in the glee club, member of the football team, and second mandolin in the mandolin club; Ohio State University Class of 1919 where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and participated in varsity athletics; name inscribed on Shaw High School WWI Memorial [see photo at left]
Appearance: see photo at left
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlisttment date 5/18/1917; rank Quarter Master First Class U.S. Navy
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date not known; enlisttment date 5/18/1917; rank Quarter Master First Class U.S. Navy
Service Number: 196-03-26
Deployment: deployment record not found
Action:
Death: August 12, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Washed Overboard from U.S. Submarine Chaser 325, Drowned in the English Channel, and declared Lost at Sea and Missing in Action
Death: August 12, 1918 at age 23; cause of death Washed Overboard from U.S. Submarine Chaser 325, Drowned in the English Channel, and declared Lost at Sea and Missing in Action
Burial: A cenotaph was erected on 11/7/1918 at Knollwood Cemetery, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH, alongside the graves of his parents who were buried later. Quarter Master First Class Harold A. Husband's name was inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Surrey, England.
Burial: A cenotaph was erected on 11/7/1918 at Knollwood Cemetery, 1678 SOM Center Rd., Mayfield Heights, OH, alongside the graves of his parents who were buried later. Quarter Master First Class Harold A. Husband's name was inscribed on the Tablets of the Missing at Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Surrey, England.
Next of Kin: Arthur J. Husband, father, 922 Rose Building and 51 Belmore Rd., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Father: Dr. Arthur James Husband (1864-1924), born Toronto, Canada, married 1888, emigrated 1905, occupation Dentist, buried Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH; Mother: Agnes Elizabeth Henry Husband (1860-1940), born Cambridge, Illinois, married 1888, buried Knollwood Cemetery, Mayfield Heights, OH. His mother, by then a widow, sailed to Europe on 5/25/1932 aboard the SS President Roosevelt as part of the U.S. WWI Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage, to visit the Tablets of the Missing at Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Surrey, England memorializing her son.
Siblings: Eve Clementine Husband Sheridan (1890-1963); Ruby Marguerite Husband Merrill (1894-1982). Sibling list may be incomplete.
Tablets of the Missing, Brookwood American Military Cemetery, Brookwood, Surrey, England showing the name of Quarter Master First Class Harold A. Husband
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