Is there a list of Wounded in Action for WWI?

Question

The proximity of this young man's death to his discharge could be that he was wounded (or infected by Spanish Flu), but how can I tell?

If you can add the service stick or details, please feel free to do so.

Answer 1

Pulmonary Tuberculosis on Death Certificate

Name:	Mr Russell Stauffer
Gender:	Male
Race:	White
Age:	18
Birth Date:	6 Apr 1901
Birth Place:	Pennsylvania
Death Date:	7 Nov 1919
Death Place:	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Father:	Samuel P Stauffer
Mother:	Ella Rebman
Certificate Number:	108400

The URL is https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=5164&h=568544&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=60884

Proper Ancestry citation is {{Ancestry Record|5164|568544}}

If you would like, I could add the image of the Death Certificate to his Profile.  And notice the birth date is different here too.

Comments

Thank you.  I couldn't find his death record on Family Search.

1901 is the correct birth date per his birth certificate.  My belief is he lied to be old enough to enlist.

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Also found this:

Pennsylvania, WWI Veterans Service and Compensation Files, 1917-1919, 1934-1948 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60884&h=78580&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Qtu10056&_phstart=successSource

{{Ancestry Record|60884|78580}}

Russell A Stauffer
Residence Age:	34
Birth Date:	26 Apr 1900
Birth Place:	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Residence Date:	1934-1948
Residence Place:	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Military Branch:	Army
Record Type:	Service Card

Now this is his Service Card on file and not the Application Form.  The form may have been filled out by the family as they would have been due any compensation he would have received if still alive.  These cards do not note if the named veteran died between the war and 1933 when PA Compensation was offered.  This is not the first time I have seen a Service Card for someone who died in the interim and list their age as if still living.

By the way it shows he did not serve overseas.

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Not an uncommon occurrence.  My grandfather lied on his, but his mother found out and raised heck with the Draft Board.  LOL

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Thanks again Dorothy, wink, wink. 

Answer 2

His death certificate should have a cause of death.

Have you looked in Fold3 for a service record or other information?

Comments

Thanks, George!  No I don't have a 3Fold subscription.

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Kathy

You can use Fold3 for free at any LDS Family History Center.

George

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Thanks, again, George.  If this were a family member I might go that far to find the info.  But he isn't even a 20th cousin 18 times removed. But I might take a walk across the street to the National Archives for a cousin .