Felix Laske
(1894-1918)
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Private Felix Laske, New York WWI Army Card
Private Felix Laske, New York WWI Army Card
Credit: ancestry.com
Credit: ancestry.com
SS Pocahontas
Gravestone, Private Felix Laske, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France
Gravestone, Private Felix Laske, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France
Felix Laske
Felix Laske
[We did not find any records that connected Private Felix Laske to Cleveland, aside from his sister living at a Cleveland address.]
[We did not find any records that connected Private Felix Laske to Cleveland, aside from his sister living at a Cleveland address.]
*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: 11/20/1894, Poland-Russia
Birth: 11/20/1894, Poland-Russia
Address: 8106 Sowinski Ave., Cleveland, OH [sister's address] and was a resident of Watermill, New York, according to the WWI Roll of Honor of Suffolk County, NY
[Sowinski Avenue was part of what was known as "the old Sowinski neighborhood," where many Polish immigrants to Cleveland settled in the late 1890's. It was located between E. 79th St. and Liberty Blvd, south of St. Clair Ave. and north of Superior Ave.]
Demographics: age 25 when entered service at Ft. Slocum, NY; Caucasian; citizenship, marital status and occupation unknown
Appearance: not known
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: entered the service on 4/22/1917 at Ft. Slocum, New York; rank Private
Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: entered the service on 4/22/1917 at Ft. Slocum, New York; rank Private
Service Number: 39443
Deployment: 9/7/1917 from Hoboken, New Jersey aboard SS Pocahontas
Action: served in Company F 9th Infantry 2nd Division [see WWI Action Card at left]
Death: November 10, 1918 [one day before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action
Death: November 10, 1918 [one day before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action
Burial: 11/13/1918 buried after death at a temporary American Cemetery at Villemontry, Ardennes, France [The small town of Villemontry was the site of intense and controversial final actions on the Western Front, as the Armistice was imminent and yet men were ordered into combat in which hundreds of lives were lost.]; 4/3/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Sedan American Cemetery, Letanne, Ardennes, France; final burial at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot A Row 39 Grave 22
Burial: 11/13/1918 buried after death at a temporary American Cemetery at Villemontry, Ardennes, France [The small town of Villemontry was the site of intense and controversial final actions on the Western Front, as the Armistice was imminent and yet men were ordered into combat in which hundreds of lives were lost.]; 4/3/1919 remains disinterred and reburied at Sedan American Cemetery, Letanne, Ardennes, France; final burial at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France, Plot A Row 39 Grave 22
Next of Kin: Baltra Gankowaka [?sic], sister, 8106 Sowinski Ave., Cleveland, OH; sister listed on WWI Burial Card as Bertha Jankowski at same address
Additional Information: WWI Burial Card noted: "No record of father or wife."
Mother: The WWI Burial Card listed his mother as "Rozalja Lasharkewska, Palapus, Komorowo, Ostrow, Province of Lomza, Poland."
Sister: Bertha Jankowski, about whom no definitive additional information was found.
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