Edward Jack Kupski

*No plaque located*

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

Birth: 6/7/1899, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 6605 Chambers St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: draft registration not found which would have contained additional demographic information; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander 

Appearance: see photo at left

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date unknown; enlistment date 8/14/1917; rank Corporal

Service Number: 1519402

Deployment: 6/15/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Leviathan

Action: Co K 5 Inf ONG (Co K 145 Inf) to death. Pvt Aug 14/17; Pvt 1cl Oct 5/17; Corp Oct 22/17. Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF June 15/18 to death [served as part of the 145th Infantry Regiment famed "Buckeye" Division]

Death: September 27, 1918 at age 19; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: 9/29/1918 buried locally in Meuse, France; 6/16/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Meuse, France; 8/4/1921 remains disinterred and prepared for return to U.S. arriving Antwerp, Belgium 9/6/1921; 9/20/1921 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Wheaton arriving Hoboken 10/3/1921; 10/22/1921 remains shipped from Hoboken to Cleveland, OH arriving 10/23/1921 to the care of Stanley Kupski, father, 6605 Chambers St., Cleveland, OH; 10/27/1921 final burial at Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Rg. 6 Section 50 Grave 506 [no burial information for this family on the Calvary Cemetery website] 

Next of Kin: Stanley Kupski, father, 6605 Chambers St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: Father: Stanislaus "Stanley" Kupski (1854-1931), born Poland Germany, emigrated ~1881, occupations Milk Peddler, Laborer, and Dumper at a Woolen Mill [a "wool dumper" compresses multiple wool bales into a single, smaller unit for easier transport and storage]; Mother: Francis Konczal Kupski (1857- ?), born Poland Germany, emigrated ~1881, in 1910 Census at age 45 reported having had 17 children of whom 8 had survived; Siblings:  Frank Kupski (1887-?); Anna Kupski (1888-?); Stanley Kupski (1892-?); Joseph Kupski (1893-?); Mary (1896-?); Helen (?). Sibling list may be incomplete. 

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