Service Number -3093488

Enroute to France: Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists
Name: Anton Stenka
Departure Date: 6 Aug 1918
Departure Place: Newport News, VA
Address: 42 Estreicher S
Residence Place: Toledo, Ohio
Father: Toney Stenka
Ship: Duca Degli Abruzzi
Rank: Private
Service Number: 3093488
Notes: Company "I" 154th Infantry 39th Division

Fourth Platoon

Company L Roster December 1918 A.E.F. Junglinster, Luxembourg: Listed as Private. - Company Roster January 1919 A.E.F. Gonderange, Luxembourg: Listed as Private. - Company Roster February 1919 A.E.F. Gonderange, Luxembourg: Listed as Private. - Company Roster March 1919 A.E.F. Gonderange, Luxembourg: Listed as Private. - Company Roster April 1919 A.E.F.: Listed as Private.

Ohio, Roster of Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in World War I, 1917-1918
Name: Anton Stenka
Age: 24
Race: White
Birth Date: 24 Nov 1894
Birth Location: Poland-Russia
Enlistment Date: 27 May 1918
Enlistment County: Toledo
Enlistment State: Ohio
Enlistment Division: National Army LB 1
Advancement: View image
Comments: 21 Co 6 Battalion 159 Depot Brigade to 30 June 1918; Co C 154 Infantry to 5 July 1918; Co I 154 Infantry to 15 Sept 1918; Co L 127 Infantry to Discharge Private Meuse-Argonne. Wounded In Action slightly 12 Oct 1918. American Expeditionary Forces 6 Aug 191

Return to U.S., Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists
Name: Anton Stenka
Departure Date: 9 May 1919
Departure Place: Brest, France
Arrival Date: 17 May 1919
Arrival Place: Hoboken, New Jersey
Address: 42 East Striecher Street
Residence Place: Toledo, Ohio
Father: Tony Stenka
Ship: Mt Vernon
Military Unit: CO. L 132 INF.
Rank: Private
Service Number: 3, 093, 488
Notes: COMPANY "L", 132ND. INFANTRY 33RD. DIVISION

WWI Victory Medal with battle Clasps

Purple Heart 12 October 1918 Meuse-Argonne

Post War Occupations / Bio:

Death Information: Date; Age; Cause; Burial Location 

U.S., Veterans Administration Master Index
Name: Anton Stenka
Record Type: Military Service
S/N 3093488
Private, Company 21, 6th Battalion, 159 Depot Brigade (DB)*
Birth Date: 24 Nov 1894
Enlisted: 27 May 1918
Military Date: 12 Oct 1918 Discharged
Residence Place: 42 E. Striecher Street, Toledo, Ohio
Death Date: 29 Jan 1964
*DEPOT BRIGADES:
Note: The role of depot brigades was to receive and organize recruits, provide them with uniforms, equipment and initial military training, and then send them to France to fight on the front lines. The depot brigades also received soldiers returning home at the end of the war and completed their out processing and discharges.

Miscellaneous:

Kentucky, Naturalization Records
Name: Anton Stenka
Record Type: Petition
Birth Date: 24 Nov 1894 Poland, Russia
Arrival Date: 24 Jun 1914 at New York from Rotterdam, Holland.
Petition Place: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Petition Number: 798
Naturalized 5 June 1918.
Note: Soldier's petition under Act of May 1918. Witnesses Army officers.

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