| Notes for THOMAS E. ST CLAIR: Tom was killed in the WW1 on Feb5, 1919. His ship the Tuscania was blown up by the Germansubmarine Tuscania off of the coast of Ireland at 5:50PM on Feb5, 1919. He went from Oklahoma in the 1st draft Sept 1917 toCamp Travis, later sailed from New York the latter part of Jan1918. When the ship was off the North Coast of Ireland it wastorpedoed by a German submarine on the of Feb 5, 1919. Thetroops on the ship marched to their different life boats quietlyand were lowered into the sea. By then it was dark and the seawas somewhat rough and by some accident the life boat containingTom St Clair was overturned and all its occupants thrown intothe water. All the boys in the boats wore life belts and it wasimpossible for them to sink, but drifting in the almost freezingwater all night, chilled them to death. Tom's body togetherwith two other men's bodies washed ashore the next day on theIsland of Ilay, a part of Scotland. The Scottish people pickedup all the bodies of the men who lost their lives in the sinkingof the ship and carefully buried them all in one grave. Theymarked each place were each body lay with his name and number.Since then the boys who were buried there have been sent home totheir relations. Tom's body now rest in the Red Creek Cemeteryin Kimble Co., TX near Landon |