Anthony Antonin Frank Wozniak

**Anthony Wozniak was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star, military awards for valor in combat, extraordinary heroism and risk of life. The Distinguished Service Cross is the second highest military award given by the U.S. Army, second only to the Medal of Honor. The Silver Star is the third highest military decoration for valor in combat.

*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: 1/19/1899, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 6613 E. Kazimier Ave, Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 18 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; native-born Clevelander; no draft registration found which would have contained additional demographic information

Appearance: unknown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date unknown; enlistment date 7/18/1917 at age 18; rank Private First Class

Service Number: 107584

Deployment: 12/24/1917 from Portland, ME aboard SS Canada

Action: Co E 58 Inf to Oct 2/17; Co B MG Bn to death. Pvt; Pvt 1cl Sept 28/18. Aisne; Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF Dec 24/17 to death. 

Death: October 7, 1918 [~5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 19; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action

Burial: buried locally in France; remains disinterred and reburied twice; final burial 2/22/1922 Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France, Grave 4 Row 4 Block C

Next of Kin: Magdalena Wozniak, mother, 6613 Kazimier Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Ignatius "Ignacy" Wozniak (1870-1920), born "Russ. Polish", emigrated ~1888, occupation City Laborer, could read but unable to write, died at age 50 of pulmonary tuberculosis, occupation on death certificate listed as "Labor garbage works;" Mother: Magdalena Lewandowski Wozniak (1881-1955), born "Ger. Polish", emigrated ~1889, Polish speaker who could not read or write per 1910 Census, reported having 8 children of whom 6 were surviving in 1910; mother sailed on 5/6/1931 to France aboard SS George Washington as part of the U.S. WWI Gold Star Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage; Siblings: Josephine Wozniak Kocharonek (1901-1983); Mary Wozniak Kurpiewski (1905-?); Helen Wozniak; Sophia Wozniak who died in 1897 of cholera at age 16. Sibling list may be incomplete.

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