PVT William Harrison Byrnes

PVT William Harrison Byrnes was born 26 Aug 1888 in Brooklyn, New York, the only child of William Nelson and Rose Elizabeth Byrnes. His father was an electrotyper and owned the family home at 989 Hancock Street in Brooklyn. By the time he was 21 he was doing that same work continued until 1918.

William was drafted and entered service on 3 May 1918 after which he was sent to Camp McClellan near Anniston, Alabama and there assigned to K Company 116th Infantry Regiment. He shipped to France with the unit in June 1918. He trained there with the unit and likely fought with the unit at Molleville Farm before coming down with the Spanish Flu. Evacuated to a hospital at Merignac, France he died there on 7 Nov 1918.

Repatriated in 1921, PVT Byrnes is at eternal rest with his family in Greenwood Cemetery in Greenwood Heights, New York.