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PVT Edgar Carl Barnes

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PVT Edgar Carl Barnes

Birth
Eastland County, Texas, USA
Death
5 Feb 1918 (aged 25)
Isle of Islay, Argyll and Bute, Scotland
Burial
Bullock, Eastland County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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A Private with the 357th Infantry, Machine Gun Company, Camp Travis Detachment #1, Edgar Carl Barnes was one of approximately 200 American soldiers who died in the sinking of the HMS Tuscania, attacked on February 5, 1918, by German submarine UB-77 in the North Channel off the western coast of Scotland.

First buried February 8, 1918, at Port Charlotte, Islay Island, off the coast of Scotland, he was later exhumed and relocated to America (1920 or thereafter).

He was the son of James Ephriam Barnes (b. Nov. 10, 1846 Walton, Florida; d. Dec. 31, 1922 Ranger, Texas)and Nancy Jane Yates Barnes (b. Oct. 24, 1856 Mississippi; d. Oct. 1923 Ranger, Texas).

Other Texas victims of the Tuscania sinking may be accessed here.

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A Private with the 357th Infantry, Machine Gun Company, Camp Travis Detachment #1, Edgar Carl Barnes was one of approximately 200 American soldiers who died in the sinking of the HMS Tuscania, attacked on February 5, 1918, by German submarine UB-77 in the North Channel off the western coast of Scotland.

First buried February 8, 1918, at Port Charlotte, Islay Island, off the coast of Scotland, he was later exhumed and relocated to America (1920 or thereafter).

He was the son of James Ephriam Barnes (b. Nov. 10, 1846 Walton, Florida; d. Dec. 31, 1922 Ranger, Texas)and Nancy Jane Yates Barnes (b. Oct. 24, 1856 Mississippi; d. Oct. 1923 Ranger, Texas).

Other Texas victims of the Tuscania sinking may be accessed here.

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