Veteran of WWI. Son of James DeLoach and second wife, Fannie Durham Deloach; grandson of Riley and Dora Ann Mathis DeLoach.
James Marvin DeLoach, at age 27, registered for the draft in the 1144th Georgia Militia District, the Ray's Mill District, on June 15, 1917. The following summer he volunteered for service and enlisted as a private in July, 1918, in Nashville, GA. He was assigned to the Coast Artillery and probably trained at Camp Gordon, GA.
After training he was sent to New York where he boarded the troop ship HMS Otranto. The ship departed New York on what was to be her final, tragic voyage. The Otranto, with a crew of 360 men and some 660 American troops, collided with the P&O Liner Kashmir off the coast of Islay.
The torpedo boat destroyer HMS Mounsey answered the SOS call and attempted rescue. Four times the destroyer crashed against the liner's side. Each time hundreds of American servicemen jumped from the Otranto's deck trying to reach the deck of the Mounsey. Many of the men died between the pitching sides of the two vessels, while others sustained serious injuries on hitting the Mounsey's deck.
With her decks perilously overloaded, the Mounsey set sail for Belfast with 596 survivors. At least 400 men remained trapped aboard the Otranto, and only 16 of those reached land. Marvin DeLoach successfully landed on the deck of the Mounsey. He was discharged from the Army in May of 1919 at Camp Gordon, GA.
James Marvin DeLoach, at age 27, registered for the draft in the 1144th Georgia Militia District, the Ray's Mill District, on June 15, 1917. The following summer he volunteered for service and enlisted as a private in July, 1918, in Nashville, GA. He was assigned to the Coast Artillery and probably trained at Camp Gordon, GA.
After training he was sent to New York where he boarded the troop ship HMS Otranto. The ship departed New York on what was to be her final, tragic voyage. The Otranto, with a crew of 360 men and some 660 American troops, collided with the P&O Liner Kashmir off the coast of Islay.
The torpedo boat destroyer HMS Mounsey answered the SOS call and attempted rescue. Four times the destroyer crashed against the liner's side. Each time hundreds of American servicemen jumped from the Otranto's deck trying to reach the deck of the Mounsey. Many of the men died between the pitching sides of the two vessels, while others sustained serious injuries on hitting the Mounsey's deck.
With her decks perilously overloaded, the Mounsey set sail for Belfast with 596 survivors. At least 400 men remained trapped aboard the Otranto, and only 16 of those reached land. Marvin DeLoach successfully landed on the deck of the Mounsey. He was discharged from the Army in May of 1919 at Camp Gordon, GA.
Veteran of WWI. Son of James DeLoach and second wife, Fannie Durham Deloach; grandson of Riley and Dora Ann Mathis DeLoach.
James Marvin DeLoach, at age 27, registered for the draft in the 1144th Georgia Militia District, the Ray's Mill District, on June 15, 1917. The following summer he volunteered for service and enlisted as a private in July, 1918, in Nashville, GA. He was assigned to the Coast Artillery and probably trained at Camp Gordon, GA.
After training he was sent to New York where he boarded the troop ship HMS Otranto. The ship departed New York on what was to be her final, tragic voyage. The Otranto, with a crew of 360 men and some 660 American troops, collided with the P&O Liner Kashmir off the coast of Islay.
The torpedo boat destroyer HMS Mounsey answered the SOS call and attempted rescue. Four times the destroyer crashed against the liner's side. Each time hundreds of American servicemen jumped from the Otranto's deck trying to reach the deck of the Mounsey. Many of the men died between the pitching sides of the two vessels, while others sustained serious injuries on hitting the Mounsey's deck.
With her decks perilously overloaded, the Mounsey set sail for Belfast with 596 survivors. At least 400 men remained trapped aboard the Otranto, and only 16 of those reached land. Marvin DeLoach successfully landed on the deck of the Mounsey. He was discharged from the Army in May of 1919 at Camp Gordon, GA.
James Marvin DeLoach, at age 27, registered for the draft in the 1144th Georgia Militia District, the Ray's Mill District, on June 15, 1917. The following summer he volunteered for service and enlisted as a private in July, 1918, in Nashville, GA. He was assigned to the Coast Artillery and probably trained at Camp Gordon, GA.
After training he was sent to New York where he boarded the troop ship HMS Otranto. The ship departed New York on what was to be her final, tragic voyage. The Otranto, with a crew of 360 men and some 660 American troops, collided with the P&O Liner Kashmir off the coast of Islay.
The torpedo boat destroyer HMS Mounsey answered the SOS call and attempted rescue. Four times the destroyer crashed against the liner's side. Each time hundreds of American servicemen jumped from the Otranto's deck trying to reach the deck of the Mounsey. Many of the men died between the pitching sides of the two vessels, while others sustained serious injuries on hitting the Mounsey's deck.
With her decks perilously overloaded, the Mounsey set sail for Belfast with 596 survivors. At least 400 men remained trapped aboard the Otranto, and only 16 of those reached land. Marvin DeLoach successfully landed on the deck of the Mounsey. He was discharged from the Army in May of 1919 at Camp Gordon, GA.
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