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Corp Frank Ware Woods

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Corp Frank Ware Woods

Birth
Ivy, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
Death
14 Nov 1918 (aged 23)
Vichy, Departement de l'Allier, Auvergne, France
Burial
Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 38.0255667, Longitude: -78.4572611
Memorial ID
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WORLD WAR I
Draft Registration


Name: Frank W. Woods
Home Address: 822 West Charlottesville
Age in Years: 22
Date of Birth: February 3, 1895
Citizenship: Natural Born
Birth Place: Ivy, VA, USA
Present Occupation: Clerk at R.R. Station
By Whom Employed: C&O Railway
Where Employed:
Dependents for Support: No
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Prior Military Service: None
Exemptions Claimed from Draft: No
Height: Medium
Build: Slim
Color of Eyes: Light Blue
Color of Hair: Dark Brown
Physical Disabilities: No
Date of Registration: June 5, 1917

Frank Ware Woods letters and photographs [manuscript] 1918-1921, n.d.
Woods, Frank Ware, 1895-1918.


The collection contains six letters written by Frank Woods to Daisy Dettor Woods, 1918 June 18-November 14 describing life at the front in France. With them are a dictated letter and two telegrams informing her that he has been wounded, and a letter from the Red Cross. November 17 regarding his death and burial in an American cemetery.

The collection also contains copies of Daily Progress clippings regarding his Charlottesville funeral and interment in Riverview Cemetery; insurance documents; photographs of Ware, his wife and daughter, and his French cemetery cross and Charlottesville tombstone.

Frank Ware Woods Letters and Photographs, 1918-1921, Accession #14067, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

This soldier was returned to the U.S. and buried here in June of 1921.

Frank Ware Woods was serving as a Corporal Company F, 317th Infantry when he died Lobar Pneumonia & Gunshot Wound on 14 November 1918 in France. He was interred at a military cemetery in Vichy, départment Allier, France.
In 1921, the remains of Frank Ware Woods
were repatriated to: Riverview Cemetery Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia, USA
WORLD WAR I
Draft Registration


Name: Frank W. Woods
Home Address: 822 West Charlottesville
Age in Years: 22
Date of Birth: February 3, 1895
Citizenship: Natural Born
Birth Place: Ivy, VA, USA
Present Occupation: Clerk at R.R. Station
By Whom Employed: C&O Railway
Where Employed:
Dependents for Support: No
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Prior Military Service: None
Exemptions Claimed from Draft: No
Height: Medium
Build: Slim
Color of Eyes: Light Blue
Color of Hair: Dark Brown
Physical Disabilities: No
Date of Registration: June 5, 1917

Frank Ware Woods letters and photographs [manuscript] 1918-1921, n.d.
Woods, Frank Ware, 1895-1918.


The collection contains six letters written by Frank Woods to Daisy Dettor Woods, 1918 June 18-November 14 describing life at the front in France. With them are a dictated letter and two telegrams informing her that he has been wounded, and a letter from the Red Cross. November 17 regarding his death and burial in an American cemetery.

The collection also contains copies of Daily Progress clippings regarding his Charlottesville funeral and interment in Riverview Cemetery; insurance documents; photographs of Ware, his wife and daughter, and his French cemetery cross and Charlottesville tombstone.

Frank Ware Woods Letters and Photographs, 1918-1921, Accession #14067, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

This soldier was returned to the U.S. and buried here in June of 1921.

Frank Ware Woods was serving as a Corporal Company F, 317th Infantry when he died Lobar Pneumonia & Gunshot Wound on 14 November 1918 in France. He was interred at a military cemetery in Vichy, départment Allier, France.
In 1921, the remains of Frank Ware Woods
were repatriated to: Riverview Cemetery Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia, USA

Inscription

Member Co 1 317 Inf.
80 Division A.E.F.
Died in France



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