Stories of the Fallen - Wladyslaw Szablinski
Rochester, New York
Wladyslaw Szablinski served in World War 1 in the United States Army. The enlistment was in February 1918, and the service was completed November 1918.
Wladyslaw Szablinski was born in 1891 in Wilno, Russian Poland. In 1913 he emigrated to meet his brother Charles( Cyprian) Szablinski who had been living in Norwich, CT. since 1910. Wladyslaw was married with 2 children, employed at Yawman & Erbe, when he entered the service at Rochester, N.Y, February 25, 1918, at the age of 27 years.
As a Private, he was assigned to 21st Company, 6th Training Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade; transferred to Company K, 307th Infantry, March 16, 1918; embarked overseas, April 7, 1918. United States Army Private Wladyslaw Szablinski was killed in action, November 7, 1918, in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He is buried in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France.
—Excerpts taken from World War Service Record of Rochester and Monroe County New York, Volume 1, Those Who Died for Us, Published by the City of Rochester, 1924, Page 404.