ISOB Edward Newell Ware -American Relief Service,WW1
Details:
In the center of a the cemetery. Isolated Burial
A standard upright US Military white inscribed gravestone.
Private First Class Edward N. Ware Jr. was born April 5, 1892, in Florence, Wisconsin and was from Chicago, Illinois. He attended Lake View High School, Chicago and Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Class of 1916. He joined the American Field Service on May 5th, 1917, attached to Section 13. Ware later enlisted with the US Ambulance Service and was attached to the French Army. He was gassed in November 1917 near Verdun. After the war, he joined the Hoover Food Commission in Paris, and in February 1919, and was part of the mission in Romania. He died of smallpox in Bucharest, Romania on May 7, 1919. He is buried Bellu Cemetery, Bucharest.
Source: Memorial Volume of American Field Service in France, by James William Davenport Seymour, by American Field Service Society, Boston, 1921.
Monument Text:
EDWARD
NEWELL
WARE
ILLINOIS
PVT I CL
AMBULANCE SERVICE
US ARMY
AMERICAN RELIEF
SERVICE
MAY 7, 1919
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
Ambulance Corps
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
American Field Service
American Red Cross Ambulance Service
Wars:
WWI
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