William Joseph Nugent

William Joseph Nugent

*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: 9/19/1892, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 3301 W. 99th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 24 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; occupation Purchasing Agent at V.D. Anderson Co. [founded 1888, manufacturer of expeller screw presses for the extraction of animal and vegetable oils], 1937 W. 96th St., Cleveland, OH; native-born Clevelander

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/1917; 5/25/1918; Private 

Service Number: 2657798

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from New York aboard SS Neleus

Action: 14 Co 2 Infantry Replacement Regiment Cp Gordon GA to 12 July 1918; 16 Co July Automatic Replacement Draft Cp Gordon GA to --; Co E 163 Infantry to 27 Aug 1918; Co G 23 Infantry to 8 Nov 1918

Death: November 8, 1918 [3 days before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 25; cause of death Accident and other causes

Burial: buried locally in France; remains disinterred 12/29/1920 and sent to Calais, France 2/10/1921; remains shipped from Calais to Hoboken, NJ 3/21/1921 aboard SS Cambrai with arrival 4/3/1921; remains shipped to Cleveland, OH 4/14/1921 with arrival 4/15/1921 to the care of McGorray Brothers Funeral Home [prominent Irish Catholic funeral home founded 1873]; final burial 4/18/1921 Calvary Cemetery, 10000 Miles Ave., Cleveland, OH, Lot 187 Sec 20 Grave 2

Next of Kin: Mrs. Maria D. Nugent,  mother, widow, 3301 W. 99th St., Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: 

Father: died when William was in his early teens; family lost 2 sons in WWI; William Joseph Nugent’s brother, Private Clifford Aloysius Nugent, was killed in France on 10/8/1918, one month earlier than William Nugent. There was a military mass for Clifford Nugent on 12/10/1918 at St. Ignatius Church. Burial for both brothers occurred on 4/18/1921 (remains repatriated) at Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland, OH. They were buried next to each other in Lot 187, Section 20, Grave 2 (William) and Grave 3 (Clifford). 

Father: James H. Nugent (1847-1906), born Connecticut; Mother: Maria Dempsey Nugent (1862-1935), born Massachusetts; additional Siblings: Joseph Nugent (?-1950); May Nugent Washington (1886-1944); Lillian Nugent (1888-1951); Ann H. Nugent Gorie (1888-1968); James F. Nugent (1893-1964). Sibling list may be incomplete.

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