Charles Frederick Ludwig

*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: April 8, 1893, Kansas City, Missouri

Address: 1537 E. 93rd St., Cleveland, Ohio [wife's address on marriage certificate] and 1815 E. 38th St., Cleveland, OH [address given at draft registration]

Demographics: signature illegible on draft registration; age 24 at draft registration; claimed to have already served 6 years as a Private in the Infantry; native-born citizen; Caucasian; single at time of draft registration but married a few months later prior to deployment 

Appearance: Height tall, Build stout, Eyes brown, Hair brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917 with prior military experience; 12/3/1917; Private

Service Number: 749627

Marriage: On 11/30/1917 [5 months prior to deployment], Charles F. Ludwig, age 24 and employed as a Patternmaker, married Charlotte Munson, age 25 and employed as a Clerk. It was her second marriage after having divorced in 1915. On 5/7/1930, Mrs. Charlotte Ludwig, wife, address 8708 Platten Ave, NW, Cleveland, OH, sailed aboard SS America as part of the U. S. WWI Gold Star Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage program to visit her husband's grave in France. No additional information found.

Deployment: 4/24/1918 from Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Leviathan

Action: Co C 323 MG Bn Dec 3/17 to Feb 22/18; Co A 15 MG Bn to Oct 18/18. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF Apr 24/18 to death. 

Death: October 18, 1918 [3 weeks before Armistice Day November 11, 1918]; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: 3 separate burials at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France, one burial soon after his death, a second burial on 3/13/1919; final burial on 3/16/1922 Plot B Row 2 Grave 27

Next of Kin: Mrs. Charlotte Ludwig, wife, 4022 Perkins Ave., Suite 3, Cleveland, OH [address recorded on husband's burial card]

Additional Information: 

Father: Michael G. Ludwig (1859-?), born Germany, emigrated ~1883, occupation Cabinetmaker and other forms of work; Mother: Rose Andler (1866-1936), born Pennsylvania of German ancestry, a widow with 3 children and living in Youngstown, OH in 1910 Census, died in Youngstown, OH; parents Michael and Rose Ludwig married in 1885 in Kansas; Siblings: sister Emma K. Ludwig (1886-1970), unmarried, occupation Clerk/Bookkeeper, 106 Ellenwood Ave., Youngstown, OH; brother William Ludwig (1896-?). Sibling list may be incomplete.

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