Joseph Alphonse Neubauer
Location of Plaque 2015
Private First Class Joseph Neubauer, signature on WWI draft registration
SS Leviathan
Private First Class Joseph Neubauer's parents' gravestone, St. Mary's Cemetery, Cleveland, OH
Gravestone, Private First Class Joseph Alphonse Neubauer,
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery,
Romagne, France
Joseph Alphonse Neubauer
[Correct surname appears to be Neubauer, but it is also spelled Newbauer.]
*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: 12/7/1893, Cleveland, Ohio
Address: 3477 W. 98th St., Cleveland, OH
Demographics: age 23 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Tinner at JM & LA Osborne Co., [founded 1859, manufacturer of plate and sheet metal products] Cleveland, OH; also worked as Typewriter Repairer and "painter picture card," native Clevelander; requested exemption from service for physical disability listed as "part of 3 fingers missing"
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 9/20/1917; Private First Class
Service Number: 734535
Deployment: 4/24/1918 from Hoboken NJ aboard SS Leviathan
Action: National Army; Co A 337 Infantry to 19 Feb 1918; Co A 11 Infantry to 14 Oct 1918; Private 20 Sept 1917; Private first class 16 June 1918; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector; American Expeditionary Forces 24 Apr 1918 to 14 Oct 1918
Death: October 14, 1918 [one month before Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death "Hostile, Killed in Action"
Burial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France; Plot B Row 22 Grave 36. Requiem of High Mass held at St. Ignatius Church, Cleveland, OH on 11/17/1918 at 8 pm, "friends invited"
Next of Kin: Mr. J. Newbauer, father, 3477 W. 98th St., Cleveland, OH
Additional Information: Private First Class Joseph Alphonse Neubauer's mother died when he was in his early teens. Father: John Neubauer (1853-1931), born Germany, emigrated ~1882, occupation Day Laborer and Railroad Baggage Porter; Mother: Rosa Schultz Neubauer (1859-1906), born Germany, emigrated ~1882; Grandmother Kate Neubauer lived in family home; 6 Siblings: John, Andrew, Mary, Lizzie, Kate, George. Sibling list may be incomplete.