Name:
George Wilber Drake
Rank:
Private
Serial Number:
1543563
Unit:
148th Infantry Regiment, 37th Infantry Division
Date of Death:
1919-01-03
State:
Ohio
Cemetery:
Cliveden War Memorial Cemetery Taplow, South Bucks District, Buckinghamshire, England
Plot:
Sec 26 Lot 1431
Row:
Grave:
40
Decoration:
Comments:
Born in Dayton, Ohio on August 2, 1892. George Drake, 1543563, 318 South Blvd, Dayton, Ohio. Medical Detachment 148th Infantry. Died of wounds 3 January 1918.
Both men were from a regiment attached to the 37th Division, which was the Ohio National Guard division during the war. The division went over the top the first day of the Meuse-Argonne and was redeployed late in the war to Flanders, where these men likely received their fatal wounds.
He is remembered on a cenotaph in Dayton, Ohio at the Woodlawn Cemetery (Section 26, lot 1431).
Source: WorldWar1.com Doughboy center