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American Red Cross and army officers at the Otranto funeral. Photograph taken after the second funeral on Oct. 17. There was a great abundance of floral tribute at this funeral, more than forty wreaths being sent by various organizations and individuals. The largest wreath was from the United States army and was inscribed "With the hope that this wreath may humbly express the sympathy of every soldier in the United States army." There were several wreaths from the Red Cross and others from the U.S. Navy, the British army and navy, the British coast guard and coast watching service, the Constabulary, the French merchant-marine, etc. There was a fine wreath inscribed, "From the Mothers of Islay." Officers in group, beginning nearest camera: Lieut. R.E. Condon, Kansas City; Photographer S.H. Dawson, New York; Lieut. Horace O'Higgins, New York; Field-Clerk Edward Boyle, Scranton

American Red Cross and army officers at the Otranto funeral. Photograp...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: ARC Eng. Group title: Otranto Disaster, U.S. Eng. Data: S.W. Div. Pa. Div. Lake D... More

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland on Oct. 17. The firing party. The flags are raised as each volley is fired, then dipped again while the bagpiper plays a short "mournful lament". The American flag is carried by Sergeant C.A. McDonald of Galesburg, Ill., one of the survivors

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland on Oct. 17. T...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Funeral, England. On caption card: D-252. Data: Central Div. Mt. Potomac. S.W. Gulf. Northern. Pacific. 1918. On caption card: 17 October,... More

Preparations for the second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. American soldiers carrying the coffins to their last resting place in the series of trench graves dug on the plot of land given by Hugh Morrison, Laird of Islay, as a permanent American cemetary

Preparations for the second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotl...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-213. On caption card: 17 October 1918, 15 November, date received. Gift; American National Red Cross... More

The firing squad of the burial of the victims of the Otranto disaster. The scene is just outside the little village of Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland, overlooking the scene of the disaster. 199 bodies were buried here on Oct. 11, when this photograph was taken. Nearest the camera are the two "Laird's Pipers", employees of Sir Hugh Morrison, Laird of Islay. The firing sqaud is composed of members of the local company of "Volunteers." All of them had been engaged night and day for four days in the work of rescue and recovery

The firing squad of the burial of the victims of the Otranto disaster....

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-213. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American Nat... More

The second Otranto funeral was held on Oct. 17, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The Otranto cemetary is just over the hill from the Kilchoman church. The upper part of the church is visible in the photograph. The Otranto cemetary contained about 250 bodies at the time of this ceremony

The second Otranto funeral was held on Oct. 17, at 2 o'clock in the af...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Funeral, England. On caption card: D-243. Data: S.W. Div. Pa. Div. Mt. Div. Potomac. Gulf. Northern. Pacific. On caption card: 17 October,... More

The scene of the Otranto disaster. The point where the Otranto was torn to pieces on the rocks of Islay's safage where is a bleak and desolate spot. The nearest habitations are a mile and a half away in the tiny hamlet of Kilchoman, which is merely a cluster of three or four stone cottages and a small church and a school house. The cottagers are poor farmer folk, big of heart but lean of purse. They starved themselves to feed the survivors, and the Red Cross supplies arrived in the nick of time to save them all, survivors and villagers as well. The photograph shows the parish church and cemetary, with Machrie Bay, the scene of the disaster in the distance. The picture was taken from a knoll, over a mile away by an improvised tele-photo lens, and from an elevation of about 600 ft

The scene of the Otranto disaster. The point where the Otranto was tor...

Title 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, England. On caption card: D-210. Data: Se... More

The burial of 199 victims of the Otranto disaster at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The firing squad consisted of members of the local company of "Home Guards", men well over the military age who are enrolled for various subsidiary military duties. On one side of the firing squad are seen the two pipers, playing a "mournful lament" or dirge on their bag-pipes. On the other side are the colorbearers, a Scotch Highlander in Kilts are carrying the British flag, and one of the American survivors carrying the Stars and Stripes. The two flags are lowered to the ground during the firing of the last salute to the dead

The burial of 199 victims of the Otranto disaster at Kilchoman, Islay,...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-215. Data: All Divs. 10/31/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General informa... More

The second Otranto funeral was held at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland, on Oct. 17th. Arrival of the funeral procession at the Otranto cemetary. About sixteen long trench graves contained the bodies of the American victims of the Otranto disaster, and the burial services were read on a little lawn in front of these trench graves

The second Otranto funeral was held at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland, on ...

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. Data: Pa. Div. Atlantic. Div. Mt. D... More

A remarkable photograph of the scene of the Otranto disaster on the coast of Islay, Scotland, where the Otranto was dashed to pieces. Taken by the Red Cross photographer from an elevation of more than 600 feet among the rugged cliffs, it shows the Red Cross men and soldiers searching among the debris for bodies of the victims. If the Otranto, drifting shoreward, had missed the submerged rocks out beyonf this headland, she would have gone ashore on the sandy beach at the bottom of the bay, and all on board would have been saved

A remarkable photograph of the scene of the Otranto disaster on the co...

Title 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. On caption card: D-195. Data: Sent to div... More

Some of the hardest workers in the task of rescue and recovery after the Otranto disaster. Group of local Scotch constabulary in front of Kilchoman Church, Islay, Scotland. Col. H.S. Turnbull, head of the Argyllshire constabulary, in center. He had general charge of the arrangements at the funerals on Oct. 11 and Oct. 17

Some of the hardest workers in the task of rescue and recovery after t...

Title, date (day/month) and notes from Red Cross caption card. Date (year) based on date of negatives in same range. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Potomac Div. Pacific. Div. Central. Pa. Gift; A... More

The Rev Donald Grant, parish minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Church at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland, and his wife, were among the hardest worked individuals in the little Scotch village on the occasion of the Otranto disaster. They cared for a number of Survivors in their own home. Mrs. Gratin formerly a trained nurse, saved the life of one American boy. Private Emil Garver of Cincinnati. For five house she labored over his unconscious body until finally her efforts were rewarded by signs of returning animation. William Cooney of Augusta, GA developed pneumonia as a result of exposure and for several days Mrs. Grant fought to save him. Mr. and Mrs. Grant are seen just inside the doorway, with the maid, two of the survivors, and the Red Cross Capt. in charge of the work in this district

The Rev Donald Grant, parish minister of the Scotch Presbyterian Churc...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. British officers in charge on the island of Islay, Scotland, where many survivors were landed and most of the bodies of the victims were washed ashore. They cooperated most heartily and efficiently with the American Red Cross and the American military authorities. They are: Colonel Heaton-Ellis and Capt. Horne, R.N., divisional commander and Assistant Divisional Commander at Islay

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

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. On caption card: D-174. Data: New E... More

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

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

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. Dat... More

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. The funeral of 199 American soldier victims at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lo...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster. Most impressive was the funeral of the American soldier victims held at Kulchoman, Islay, Scotland. On Friday Oct. 11, 199 bodies were buried here at a service attended by all the local population together with many American army, a navy and Red Cross officers

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster. Most impressive was t...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-187. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American Nat... More

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 45...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

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

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

Title 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, England. On caption card: D-176. Data: Se... More

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland on Oct. 17. The Chief mourners in the funeral procession were a detachment of American officers and soldiers under Capt. R.H. Puffer of Buffalo and Los Angeles (in front of detachment). Behind the detachment of soldiers walked three Red Cross men, Private S.H. Dawson of New York, Lieut. James Jeffers of East Orange, N.J. Just behind Dawson is Col. Heaton Ellis, the highest British military authority on the island, with Lady Mary Morrison, wife of the Laird of Islay, Hugh Morrison

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland on Oct. 17. T...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-247. Data: Central Div. Mt. Gulf. Northern. Southern. N.W. Divs. 1918. On caption card: 17 October, ... More

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The services at the graveside. Nearest the camera, the Reverend Donald Grant, pastor of the parish church at Kilchoman. He sheltered several survivors in his own house, and two of them owe their lives to the wonderful care given them by Reverend Grant and his wife, who is a former trained nurse. One of the survivors died of pneumonia in Reverend Grant's house. In center, Capt. H.A. Aiken, U.S. Army chaplain of Auburn, N.Y. Beyond him, the Reverend H.G. Pegg, an Episcopal clergymen of Islay. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the congregation sang "God Save the King" and the "Star Spangled Banner". As a delicate compliment to the Americans, the place of honor was given to the Star Spangled Banner

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The services...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-254. Data: S.W. Div. Lake Div. 1918. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General inform... More

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Funeral of 199 American soldiers, victims at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. Reading the funeral service at the graveside. The photograph gives a good idea of the bleak and rocky nature of the Islay coast. The coffins seen in the foregound were made on the spot by local workmen from such lumber as was available. Group of American army and Red Cross officers in the foreground

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

Title 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, England. On caption card: D-178. Data: Se... More

The Otranto Cemetary at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. Islanders digging the trench graves in which the coffins containing the American dead were laid

The Otranto Cemetary at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. Islanders digging ...

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. Data: Potomac Div. Atlantic Div. La... More

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster. Bodies of the American soldier victims of the Otranto disaster in the churchyard at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The church itself had to be used as a temporary morgue

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster. Bodies of the American soldie...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-202. Data: All Divs. 10/31/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General informa... More

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

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, Scotland. On caption card: D-172. Data: All Divisions. 11/8/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General in... More

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. The RC man in command on the Scotch coast of Islay, where many survivors were landed, was Lieut. James Jeffers of East Orange, N.J. He is soon here thanking Mrs. Mary McIntyre, the teacher at the Rockside School, Kilchoman, Islay, for her wonderful hospitality to the American soldier survivors. In the school she sheltered and fed and clothed a number of the survivors. For a week and suffered some privations herself in doing this

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lo...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

Work of the ARC in the Otranto Disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. RC men unloading supplies for survivors at a cottage on the coast of Islay, Scotland, twenty miles across rough mountain country. The RC men worked day and night and day for three days seeing that everything obtainable was put at the disposal of the Islay fisher-folk and cottages' hospitality was wonderful. Many of them gave up their little homes slept in barns and shacks so that their little homes survivors could have the best of care

Work of the ARC in the Otranto Disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lo...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

Burial of the American soldier victims of the Otranto disaster. At this ceremony, held on the afternoon of Oct. 11, 1919, bodies were laid to rest. The coffin nearest the camera contains the body of the brave Capt. of the Otranto. The chief mourners at the graveside were British and American military, naval and Red Cross officers. The burial place is at Kilchoman, Islay, at a spot overlooking the scene of the tragedy

Burial of the American soldier victims of the Otranto disaster. At thi...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-216. Data: All Divs. 10/31/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information ... More