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WAR HISTORY COMMISSION
STATE OF VIRGINIA
MILITARY SERVICE RECORD
Name in full
(family name): Cheatham
(first name): raymond
(middle name): Lester
Date of birth
(month): June
(day): 27
(year): 1896
Place of Birth
(town):
(county): Chesterfield
(state): Virginia
(country): USA
Name of father: L.W. Cheatham
Birthplace (country): USA
Maiden name of mother: Sallie Bell Lester
Birthplace (country): USA
Are you White, Colored, Indian or Mongolian: White
Citizen (Yes or no): Yes
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Church (denomination): Baptist
Married: No
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Previous military service or training: R.O.T.C. UVA
Education
(Preparatory): J.W. High School
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Education
(University): Virginia
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Occupation before entry into service: Student
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(county): Chesterfield
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(county): Chesterfield
(state): Virginia
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WAR RECORD
Inducted into service or enlisted on (date): June 19, 1918
at (place): Richmond, Virginia
as a (rank): Apprentice Seaman
in the: US Navy
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(ship): US Naval Training Station
at (place): Newport RI
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WAR RECORD
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Cited, decorated, or otherwise honored for distinguished services (give circumstantial accounts of exploits, including dates and places where performed, also by whom and in what manner the honors were bestowed): :
Killed in action, killed by accident, died of wounds, died of disease, wounded, gassed, shell-shocked, taken prisoner:
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Under medical care:-
Name of hospital: U.S. Naval Hospital
Location: Newport, RI
From (date): Sept 10 (1918)
to (date): April 19, 1919
Name of hospital: U.S. Naval Hospital
Location: [Portsmouth?], VA
From (date): April 19, 1919
to (date): Oct 24, 1919
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Permanently disabled (through loss of limb, eyesight, etc.) (specify disability): Influenza complicated with pericarditis.
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Discharged from service at (place): Norfolk Naval Hospital
(date): Oct 24 1919
as a (rank): Apprentice Sea
RETURN TO CIVIL LIFE
Occupation after the war: Totally disabled
If a change of occupation was occasioned by reason of disability acquired in the service, describe the process of re-education and readjustment, and indicate the agencies or individuals chiefly instrumental in furnishing the new occupations::
