William Phineas Worswick (middle initial on plaque is incorrect)

Birth: 6/21/1895, Cleveland, Ohio

Address: 2259 E. 84th St., Cleveland, OH

Demographics: age 21 at draft registration; single; Caucasian; natural-born citizen; occupation Shipping Clerk at National Acme Manufacturing Co., [one of the largest manufacturers of machine tools in the U.S., located primarily at Lakeside and E. 49th St., Cleveland, OH and slated for demolition in 2024]

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes gray, Hair brown; stated on draft registration that he had "flat feet"

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: 6/5/1917; 5/28/1918; Private

Service Number: 3489849

Deployment: 7/21/1918 aboard SS Grampian from NY (Hoboken, NJ) as part of the Camp Gordon July Automatic Replacement Draft

Action: 18 Co 2 Inf Repl Regt Cp Gordon Ga July 12/18; Co A 163 Inf to Aug 17/18; Co D 28 Inf to death. Pvt. St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. AEF July 21/18 to death

Death: October 7, 1918 [~5 weeks before the Armistice on November 11, 1918] at age 23; cause of death Killed in Action

Burial: Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-Sous-Montfaucon, Lorraine, France

Next of Kin: Charles B. Worswick, father, 12432 Arlington Ave., Cleveland, OH

Additional Information: Father: Charles Benjamin Worswick (1861-1939), born Ohio, occupation Machinist/Toolmaker and later a Foreman at National Acme Manufacturing Co. (see above), his father William Worswick was in the Cleveland Fire Department when it was a volunteer organization; Mother: Bertha Hambrecht Worswick (1866-1934), born Germany, emigrated 1887, applied for the WWI Mothers' and Widows' Pilgrimage and desired pilgrimage in 1930; Sibling: Helen Worswick (Mrs. W. J. Barkhauer) (1897-1988), named her son Kenneth William, the middle name William presumably in memory of her grandfather and/or brother