British Report on Tuscania Losses Reveals 147 U S Soldiers Lost
The British admiralty revises the Tuscania losses to 147 American soldiers missing including 4 officers, with 126 bodies recovered and 2030 survivors. Details show survivors landed in Scotland and Ireland, while War Department reports await verification. Officials praise American discipline and courage amid the sinking.
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Navy Department Today
Bunecrana
Ireland
Londonderry
Islay
Scotland
War Department
Ruscania
London
Tuscania Disaster Report Counts Saved and Missing
The British admiralty released figures via the Associated Press showing 2235 saved and about 166 missing from the Tuscania disaster. Among the saved were 113 American officers and 1917 American men along with 16 officers and 183 crew, and six passengers. 126 American troops bodies have been recovered and 148 survivors landed in Scotland, including 134 US Army members.
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Tuscania
Associated Press
United States Army
Newton Centre man safe after Tuscania sinking contact
Edward W Borst 25 year old assistant engineer with the American Forestry Company of Newton Centre cabled his brother Theodore I Borst president of the company that he is safe and well. Born Edward W Borst a Cornell forest engineer trained in saw mill work enlisted in the 20th Regiment Engineers Sixth Battalion. He was aboard the torpedoed Tuscania and the cablegram gives no port of origin.
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Edward Walter Borst
Nancock Avenue
Newton Centre
Theodore I
Borst
American Forestry Company
Beacon Street
Tuscania
Edward W. Porst
Cornell University
Ife
20Th Regiment
Ingineers
Ile
War Department
Washington
First Class Pilot Fitzmaurice Missing on Tuscania
Brockton youth James Witzmaurice, 20, a member of the 100th aero squadron, sailed aboard the Tuscania with his parents in Brockton receiving no word of his fate. He enlisted November 4 in the aviation section and trained at Kelley Field San Antonio Texas. He had logged 61 flights and recently mailed a note saying he was about to sail.
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Brockton
James
Kelley Vield
San Antonio
Tex
Tle
tTlis
Tuscania
Abington Soldier Commands 100th Aero Squadron in War
Lt Leland V Clark 24 of Abington captained a battalion of the 100th Aero Squadron aboard the Tuscania. His parents Mr and Mrs Fred W Snow have heard no news. A 1912 Abington High School football captain, he graduated from M T T in 1916 and enlisted in 1917. He was commissioned at Belleville Illinois in August and served as an instructor at Gardner Wily before assuming battalion command.
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Nortil
Abington
Leland V. Clark
Tuscania
Fred W. Snow
Clark
100Th Aero Squadron
Ile
Belleville
Ill
Gardner Wily
Memorial Services in Waco for Tuscania Victims
Memorial services will be held Sunday afternoon in Waco at Cotton Palace Auditorium for Tuscania victims. Many victims trained with the 32d Army Division at Camp MacArthur near Waco. Church personnel and local business groups back the effort. 7000 attendees expected.
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Waco
Tex
32D
Camp MacArthur
Cotton Palace Auditorium
Falls River Soldiers Fought at Dardanelles and France
John Hendrick and Jacob Zalkind of Fall River served in the Dardanelles and France. Hendrick, 20, in the Aviation Corps, wounded four times and just home on furlough when recalled. Zalkind, 24, Durfee High School and Thibodeau's graduate, aboard the Tuscania when torpedoed off Ireland coast.
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Fall River
John Hendrick
Jacob Zalkind
Tuscania
Ireland
South Main Street
213Th Aero Squadron
Providence
168Th Aero Squadron
Tilendrick
Aviation Corps
Bessie Zalkind
Covel Street
Russia
Tie
Durfee High School
Thibodeau's Business College
Jamaica Plain Boy in 158th Aero Squadron Aboard Tuscania
A Jamaica Plain youth served in the 158th Aero Squadron and was aboard the USS Tuscania when it was torpedoed, surviving the attack with other crew and passengers in the wartime disaster.
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Jamaica Plain
158Th Aero Squadron
Tuscania
Soldier Ernest Stenson Son of Noted Figure
Ernest Stenson, 23, private in the 158th Aero Squadron, one of the Tuscania survivors after a torpedo strike, is identified as the son of a prominent local figure. The incident drew attention to the casualties and the heroism of service members aboard the doomed ship.
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Ernest Stenson
158Th Aero Squadron
Tuscania
Memoir of Sailor Enlists in 118th Aero Squadron
Mrs Louise Swenson of Jamaica Plain recalls her son now serving in the war effort. He enlisted last August as a machinist in the 118th Aero squadron, trained at Fort Slocum, then transferred to the 188th at Kelley Field San Antonio. He left the States as a private machinist.
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Louise Swenson
Call Street
Jamaica Plain
Good-By
France
118Th Aero Squadron
Fort Slocum
188Th
Kelley Field
San Antonio
Tex
Hla
188Th Aero Squadron
States
Gosselin Enlisted in 158th Aero Squadron at Newburyport
Adelard Gosselin of Newburyport age 19 is listed among New England men aboard the Tuscania. He enlisted in the 168th Aero Squadron and is expected to sail for Europe soon. He has a brother in service in Texas and a last homecoming was delayed due to quarantine of his unit.
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Newburyport
Adelard Gosselin
New England
Water Street
Young Gosselin
Texas
Gosselin
Ile
Europe
168Th Aero Squadron
New York
Internal Revenue
United States
Collector of Internal Revenue
Baltimore
Maryland
National City Company
State Street
Boston
American Injured in Alamance Sinking Near Liverpool
An American, G. Davon of Savannah, Ga., was injured when Garland Steamship Corp s Alamance was torpedoed and sunk near Liverpool shortly before the Tuscania. The cable confirms four dead: Larrin Fralio Bridgewood Nova Scotia, B. M. Carrasco Spaniard, a British seaman named Marshall, and three Japanese. Survivors were landed in Liverpool and will sail home at once.
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New York
Davon
Savannah
Garland Steamship Corporation
Alamance
Ine
Liverpool
Tuscania
Larrin Fralio
Bridgewood
N. S
B. M. Carrasco
Marshall
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