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Scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. Robert Morrison, a native of Islay who received the Order of the British Empire for risking his life three times to save three American soldiers, shows the photographer how he did it. He scaled a cliff and 250 feet high and rescued an exhausted American who had climbed part way to the cliff and was in a perilous position being too weak to hang on much longer. To accomplish this, Morrison had to throw a rope across a chasm, lassoing a neck of rock and then making his way across the rope to the position where the American soldier could be reached
Summary
Title and note information from Red Cross caption card.
Group title: Tuscania Disaster.
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Data: Northern Pa. Atlantic Southern Potomac Mt N.W. Pacific Gulf Central Division.
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
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Date
01/01/1918
Location
scotland
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
