Alexander Wilde

Birth: 3/10/1896; Ohio

Address: 4043 Broadway, Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; natural-born citizen; occupation Teamster at "Behund" Electric at Bolivar & 9th streets; also employed as Machine Operator, Brassworker, and at Morreau Gas Fixture Mfg. Co., 1303 Oregon Ave. [founded 1887 by Albert Morreau, a recent German-Jewish immigrant]

Appearance: Height tall; Build medium; Eyes gray; Hair brown

Draft Registration Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/23/1918; Private

Service Number: 2657485

Deployment: 7/22/1918 from Brooklyn, NY aboard SS Diomed

Action: 20 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga to July 13/18; Co A 163 Inf to Aug 17/18; Co 1 28 Inf to death. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 22/18 to death. DW Oct 6/18. Cited in GO 1 1 Div dated Jan 1/20

Death: October 6, 1918 [~5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 22; cause of death Died of Wounds Received in Action

Burial: buried locally in France; 3/21/1921 remains disinterred and sent to Antwerp, Belgium for journey home to U.S.; 4/22/21 remains shipped from Antwerp to Hoboken, NJ aboard SS Somme arriving 5/6/1921; 5/12/1921 remains shipped to Cleveland arriving 5/13/1921; burial 5/17/1921 at Highland Park Cemetery, 21400 Chagrin Blvd., Cleveland, OH, Lot 3 Section 3 Tier 1 Grave 5  

Next of Kin: Joseph Wilde, father, 4043 Broadway, Cleveland, OH 

Additional Information: 

There were four sons in this family who served in World War I, of whom 3 survived.

Father: Joseph Wilde (1857-1923), born Bohemia and emigrated 1879, occupation Accordion Maker; Mother: Mary Trnka Wilde (1866-1939), born Bohemia, emigrated 1876 and bore 9 children beginning at age 15; Siblings: John (1881-1951) WWI Veteran; Joseph (1887-1962) WWI Veteran; Mae Wilde Baxa (1889-1979); Rose Herold (1891-1978); Yaroslav (1893-1963) WWI Veteran; Christine Wintle Korell (1894-1960) had 2 children Verona Dzomba (1914-1985) and Norman Wintle (1937-2017); Bohumil (1898-1901) died at age 3 of croup and diptheria; William (1900-1964); several family members buried at Highland Park Cemetery in proximity of Private Alexander Wilde