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PRIVATE
FRANK HENRY VALENTINE was born in Philadelphia PA on March 13, 1895. He
was the son of Clara Sophia Valentine of 1111
Penn
Street, Camden NJ, with whom he lived when registering for the draft on June
5, 1917. He then worked as a knitter at a hosiery factory.
Frank
Valentine was drafted on May 13, 1918 and sent to Camp
Hancock GA, where he trained as a member of Company 11, Machine Gun
Training Center. When sent overseas he was assigned to the Machine Gun
Company of the 102nd Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry
Division.
Private
Frank H. Valentine was killed in action in the Argonne Forest on
November 6, 1918. He was survived by his mother, and brother John W.
Valentine, both of the Penn Street address. John Valentine was working
as a motion picture projectionist as early as January 1920 in
movie
theaters in Camden NJ.
The
family had moved to West Warrington Avenue in East Riverton (Cinnaminson
Township) NJ by 1929, when Clara Valentine applied to make the Mothers
Pilgrimage to Europe.
In the late 1920s the War Department
of the United States compiled a list of mothers and widows of deceased
soldiers killed in World War I and offered to send them to their loved
one's final resting place in Europe. The Valentine family was still
living in Burlington County NJ as late as December 1973.
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