An American military funeral at Belfast, Ireland. The buglars sound the last salute to the dead. The graves are those of twelve American soldiers, part of them victims of the Otranto disaster, the remainder, men who died of pneumonia, in Belfast hospitals, after being landed from a troop ship
Summary
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: Otranton Disaster.
Data: Pacific. 1918 Pa. Div. 3/8/19. New Eng. Div. 3/8/19. Northern Div. 3/8/19. Mountain Div. 4/1919.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 21
Tags
Date
01/01/1918
Location
belfast
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html