Howard Clark Woodford (aka H. C. Woodford and Clark Woodford)

[Some of the following information was submitted by a volunteer contributor.]

*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: 11/30/?1879, ?1880, or ?1882, Sharon, Pennsylvania 

Address: Parents' address: 1581 Robinwood Ave., Cleveland, Ohio

Demographics: no draft registration found; single; Caucasian; occupation Machinist/Tool Maker at time of enlistment; the 1897 City Directory of New Castle, PA shows occupation as "S. V. Steel Co.;" 1900 Census shows occupation as Day Laborer; religion Baptist

Appearance: Complexion ruddy, Eyes gray, Hair dark

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: Enlistment date 4/10/1916 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Sergeant

Service Number: 208439

Deployment: not found

Action: Royal Canadian Regiment, Division "C" Coy [during WWI some Americans enlisted in the Royal Canadian Regiment] 

Death: March 10, 1918 at age 37 in France; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: Thelus Military Cemetery, Thelus, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France, Plot lll.C.3; inscription on gravestone: "Though lost to sight to memory dear thou ever wilt remain." [no gravestone photo]

Next of Kin: Mrs. Josephine Woodford, mother, 1581 Robinwood Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: John W. Woodford (1851-1888), of Welsh ancestry, occupation Heater at a Rolling Mill (a Heater tended the furnaces at a factory that rolled steel or other metal into sheets); Mother: Josephine Clark Woodford (1854-1924), born Pennsylvania, had 4 children, buried Lakewood Park Cemetery, Rocky River, OH; Siblings: Minnie Woodford Holloway (1872-1936); Sue A. Woodford (1873-1975); Grace Woodford Porter (1882-1953). Sibling list may be incomplete.

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