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PVT Thomas Ernest St. Clair

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PVT Thomas Ernest St. Clair

Birth
Erath County, Texas, USA
Death
5 Feb 1918 (aged 29)
Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Burial
Kimble County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Thomas St. Clair, aged 30, Forestry Troops, Co. F, 6th Btn., 20th Engineers went down in a ship called the "Tuscania"...which was blown up by a German submarine off the North Coast of Ireland at 5:50 p.m. on Feb. 5, 1918. Tom went from Broken bow, Oklahoma in the first draft, in Sept. of 1917 to Camp Travis. He sailed from New York the latter part of January 1918 in the ill-fated ship. Shortly after the ship was struck, the men rushed to their different lifeboats and were lowered into the sea. By some accident, the lifeboat containing Tom St. Clair was overturned and all of its occupants were thrown into the rough waters. All the boys in the boats wore lifebelts, and it was impossible for them to sink, but drifting around in almost freezing water all night chilled them to death.

Tom's body, together with two other mens bodies were washed ashore the next day on the Island of Islay, a part of Scotland. The Scottish people picked up all of the bodies of the men who lost their lives in the sinking of this ship and carefully buried them all in one grave, marking each place with each soldier's tag with his name and number on it. Since then, the boys who were buried there have been sent home to their relatives and Tom's body now rests in the Red Creek cemetery in Kimble County, Texas.

Thomas was the son of John W. and Nancy Ellen Riddle St. Clair. (recorded by Frank L. Wilson, out of Families of Kimble County, Vol. II)


Over 200 American Soldiers that were aboard that ship lost their lives that night.

For more history: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/Novus_Fabula_02/zimmermann02.htm

another link: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/Saxon/clair.htm

Thomas St. Clair, aged 30, Forestry Troops, Co. F, 6th Btn., 20th Engineers went down in a ship called the "Tuscania"...which was blown up by a German submarine off the North Coast of Ireland at 5:50 p.m. on Feb. 5, 1918. Tom went from Broken bow, Oklahoma in the first draft, in Sept. of 1917 to Camp Travis. He sailed from New York the latter part of January 1918 in the ill-fated ship. Shortly after the ship was struck, the men rushed to their different lifeboats and were lowered into the sea. By some accident, the lifeboat containing Tom St. Clair was overturned and all of its occupants were thrown into the rough waters. All the boys in the boats wore lifebelts, and it was impossible for them to sink, but drifting around in almost freezing water all night chilled them to death.

Tom's body, together with two other mens bodies were washed ashore the next day on the Island of Islay, a part of Scotland. The Scottish people picked up all of the bodies of the men who lost their lives in the sinking of this ship and carefully buried them all in one grave, marking each place with each soldier's tag with his name and number on it. Since then, the boys who were buried there have been sent home to their relatives and Tom's body now rests in the Red Creek cemetery in Kimble County, Texas.

Thomas was the son of John W. and Nancy Ellen Riddle St. Clair. (recorded by Frank L. Wilson, out of Families of Kimble County, Vol. II)


Over 200 American Soldiers that were aboard that ship lost their lives that night.

For more history: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/Novus_Fabula_02/zimmermann02.htm

another link: http://renton.50megs.com/Tuscania/Saxon/clair.htm

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