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American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Funeral of victims at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The firing party: Sergeant C.A. McDonald of Galesburg, Ill., one of the survivors, is seen carrying the flag. Colonel Heaton-Ellis, the highest British military authority in Islay, is seen standing close to the flag. He had charge of all relief work on behalf of the British government in both the Tuscania and Otrante disasters
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Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto Disaster. Some of those at Islay, Scotland, who were responsible for the excellent way in which the work of rescue and recovery was conducted under extremely difficult conditions on a bleak and desolate shore. In civilian clothes, Lt. Col. Turnbull, Chief Constable of Argyllshire and his subordinates who were responsible for rescue work. The British Tommy shown in the photo is Ensign McKenzie of the funeral of 199 victims on Oct. 11. The Naval officer is Lieut. Greenham, R.N. the Divisional Officer of the coast guard in this district, who was himself responsible for the recovery of forty bodies. Pipers John McEachron (left) & John Woodrow (right) played the lament at the funeral. They had previously been engaged in the recovery of bodies for 4 days & nights
American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. The Parish church and churchyard at Kilchoman, Islay, from which 199 bodies of American soldiers were buried on Oct. 11. In the background is Machric Bay, the scene of the disaster. The Otranto went ashore on a rocky headland, and was dashed to pieces. If the ship had veered a few points further toward the church tower, it would have beached on the sandy slope shown here, and the lives of most of those aboard, would have been saved
Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. At Bowmore, a little village in the interior of the island of Islay, Scotland, the American Red Cross purchased almost every thing in the town in order to furnish supplies for the survivors, who were being shepherded in little cottages on the bleak Islay coast, twenty miles away. Mrs. J.R. Anderson (her husband is at the front in France) owns the only provision store in the little village, and she placed everything she had at the disposal of the Red Cross. The only car which the Red Cross could obtain to transport the supplies was a little old touring car, which did valiant service for three days transporting supplies over the rugged Islay roads & sometimes where no roads were
Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. RC supplies for the sick and exhausted survivors being unloaded at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. In the background is the parish church where 199 American soldier victims were buried on October 11. The little Red Cross car made nearly two hundred miles a day over some of the roughest country in the world, bringing aid and succor to the survivors
Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Distributing Red Cross supplies to the cottagers on the bleak coast of Islay, Scotland. The survivors exhausted by exposure and their battle with the elements, were put to bed in the best rooms that the hospitable Scotch cottagers had and were given freely everything in the larders. But within twenty-four hours, all the available food was eaten, and the Red Cross came to the rescue just in time, bringing quantities of food, twenty miles across terrible roads
American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost, Funeral of the victims at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. Scene at the graveside: this service was held on October 11, over the bodies of 199 American soldiers whose bodies had been washed ashore on the bleak Scotch coast. The mourners included a number of survivors, together with American Military, naval and Red Cross officers and a large number of British military and naval people and scores of local inhabitants, most of whom had also been present, some months before, at the funerals of the victims of the Tuscania
Summary
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. London.
Group title: Otranto Disaster, London.
On caption card: D-173.
Data: Red Cross Mag. 11/18. Sent to Divisions.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 21
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Date
01/01/1918
Location
kilchoman
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html