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Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster. Wreckage of the ill-fated troopship. Red Cross and army men seeking among the wreckage for bodies of victims. The photo is taken on the bleak shores of Machrie Bay, where the Otranto went on the rocks. This is on the coast of Islay, Scotland

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster. Wreckage of th...

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: Otranto Disaster, London. On caption card: D-191. Dat... More

The scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited: The Tuscania cemetary at Port Charlotte, Islay, Scotland. The cemetary is located close to the beach where these bodies came ashore. Each grave is marked by a cross at the head and a smaller cross at the foot, the larger cross bearing the name and number of the soldier

The scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited: The Tuscania cemetary at...

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: Tuscania Disaster. Data: Lake, Potomac, Pacific, New ... More

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto Disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Mr. Hugh Morrison, Liard of Islay, Scotland where, most of the Otranto victims were washed ashore, discusses the work of recovery with Capt. Battle of the U.S. Army. Mr. Morrison, who figured largely also in the Tuscania tragedy, was busy night and day with the work of Otranto relief, and threw all his resources into the work, placing his estate and all its employees at the disposal of the Red Cross

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto Disaster, when nearly 45...

Title 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: Otranto Disaster. On caption card: D-186. Data: Sent to div... More

Grave of the soldier victims of the Otranto Disaster. In this spot 199 American soldiers were buried on Oct. 11. The burial place is at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The photograph was taken on the afternoon of the funeral, showing the flowers and wreaths presented by civic organizations and individuals from various parts of Islay

Grave of the soldier victims of the Otranto Disaster. In this spot 199...

Title 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: Otranto Disaster. On caption card: D-217. Data: Sent to div... More

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The services at the graveside. Nearest the camera, the Reverend Donald Grant, pastor of the parish church at Kilchoman. He sheltered several survivors in his own house, and two of them owe their lives to the wonderful care given them by Reverend Grant and his wife, who is a former trained nurse. One of the survivors died of pneumonia in Reverend Grant's house. In center, Capt. H.A. Aiken, U.S. Army chaplain of Auburn, N.Y. Beyond him, the Reverend H.G. Pegg, an Episcopal clergymen of Islay. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the congregation sang "God Save the King" and the "Star Spangled Banner". As a delicate compliment to the Americans, the place of honor was given to the Star Spangled Banner

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The services...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-254. Data: S.W. Div. Lake Div. 1918. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General inform... More

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster. The headland, Machrie Bay, Islay, Scotland, just off which the Otranto was dashed to pieces. If the ship had passed this headland safely in the storm, she would have gone ashore on a sloping beach, and all aboard would have been saved

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster. The headland, ...

Title 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: Otranto Disaster. On caption card: D-201. Data: Sent to div... More

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland on Oct. 17. The Chief mourners in the funeral procession were a detachment of American officers and soldiers under Capt. R.H. Puffer of Buffalo and Los Angeles (in front of detachment). Behind the detachment of soldiers walked three Red Cross men, Private S.H. Dawson of New York, Lieut. James Jeffers of East Orange, N.J. Just behind Dawson is Col. Heaton Ellis, the highest British military authority on the island, with Lady Mary Morrison, wife of the Laird of Islay, Hugh Morrison

The second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland on Oct. 17. T...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-247. Data: Central Div. Mt. Gulf. Northern. Southern. N.W. Divs. 1918. On caption card: 17 October, ... More

Scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. The Tuscania Cemetary at Kinnabus, Islay, Scotland, beneath the rocky shores where the bodies came ashore. The Islay folk have carefully tended the two rows of graves as they have done also in the case of the three other Tuscania cemetaries located at other parts of the Island

Scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. The Tuscania Cemetary at Kin...

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 Southern Lake Potomac S.W. Pacific New England. Gift; Ame... More

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. British officers in charge on the island of Islay, Scotland, where many survivors were landed and most of the bodies of the victims were washed ashore. They cooperated most heartily and efficiently with the American Red Cross and the American military authorities. They are: Colonel Heaton-Ellis and Capt. Horne, R.N., divisional commander and Assistant Divisional Commander at Islay

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

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: Otranto Disaster. On caption card: D-174. Data: New E... More

Bodies of the Otranto's victims were placed in the Kilchoman Church graveyard after the sanctuary was full. Courtesy of Carl Reavey, editor of the Ileach, Islay, Scotland, and the Museum of Islay Life

Bodies of the Otranto's victims were placed in the Kilchoman Church gr...

Title from: Scott, Neil R. Many were held by the sea: the tragic sinking of HMS Otranto, 2012. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General information about the American National Red Cross photogra... More

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto Disaster. Some of those at Islay, Scotland, who were responsible for the excellent way in which the work of rescue and recovery was conducted under extremely difficult conditions on a bleak and desolate shore. In civilian clothes, Lt. Col. Turnbull, Chief Constable of Argyllshire and his subordinates who were responsible for rescue work. The British Tommy shown in the photo is Ensign McKenzie of the funeral of 199 victims on Oct. 11. The Naval officer is Lieut. Greenham, R.N. the Divisional Officer of the coast guard in this district, who was himself responsible for the recovery of forty bodies. Pipers John McEachron (left) & John Woodrow (right) played the lament at the funeral. They had previously been engaged in the recovery of bodies for 4 days & nights

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto Disaster. Some of those ...

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: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-204. Da... More

Preparations for the second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. American soldiers carrying the coffins to their last resting place in the series of trench graves dug on the plot of land given by Hugh Morrison, Laird of Islay, as a permanent American cemetary

Preparations for the second Otranto funeral at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotl...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-213. On caption card: 17 October 1918, 15 November, date received. Gift; American National Red Cross... More

Islay House, residence of Hugh Morrison, the Laird of Islay. Both Mr. Morrison and his wife, Lady Mary, were of the greatest help to the Red Cross in its work of rescue and recovery. Mr. Morrison placed his entire estate and all his employees at the service of the Red Cross, and both he and Lady Mary were constantly on the scene. The ground for the Otranto cemetary was selected and donated by Mr. Morrison. It will be remembered that he was also one of the principal figures in the similar work after the Tuscania tragedy

Islay House, residence of Hugh Morrison, the Laird of Islay. Both Mr. ...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: A.R.C. England. Group title: Otranto Disaster. Data: Atlantic Div. Lake Division.... More

The scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. The Tuscania cemetary at Kilnaughton, Port Ellen. An American flag flies proudly from the further corner of the cemetary, where the tiny mounds are marked by straight rows of little crosses

The scene of the Tuscania disaster revisited. The Tuscania cemetary at...

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: Tuscania Disaster. Data: Pacific Div. S.W. Div. Lake ... More

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Funeral of victims at Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland. The firing party: Sergeant C.A. McDonald of Galesburg, Ill., one of the survivors, is seen carrying the flag. Colonel Heaton-Ellis, the highest British military authority in Islay, is seen standing close to the flag. He had charge of all relief work on behalf of the British government in both the Tuscania and Otrante disasters

American Red Cross work in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, Scotland. On caption card: D-172. Data: All Divisions. 11/8/18. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952. General in... More

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Distributing Red Cross supplies to the cottagers on the bleak coast of Islay, Scotland. The survivors exhausted by exposure and their battle with the elements, were put to bed in the best rooms that the hospitable Scotch cottagers had and were given freely everything in the larders. But within twenty-four hours, all the available food was eaten, and the Red Cross came to the rescue just in time, bringing quantities of food, twenty miles across terrible roads

Work of the American Red Cross in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 45...

Title 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: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-188. Data: Se... More

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. The RC man in command on the Scotch coast of Islay, where many survivors were landed, was Lieut. James Jeffers of East Orange, N.J. He is soon here thanking Mrs. Mary McIntyre, the teacher at the Rockside School, Kilchoman, Islay, for her wonderful hospitality to the American soldier survivors. In the school she sheltered and fed and clothed a number of the survivors. For a week and suffered some privations herself in doing this

Work of the ARC in the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lo...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and... More

Work of the ARC on the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lost. Distributing Red Cross supplies to the cottager who cared for the Otranto survivors on the bleak coast of Islay, Scotland. Practically all the survivors who were landed here after their shop went to pieces had to be put to bed and given medical attention at once. The cottagers were wonderful in their unbounded hospitality, putting their all at the disposal of the RC. The Red Cross had to bring food and other supplies by car twenty miles over some of the roughest country in the world

Work of the ARC on the Otranto disaster, when nearly 450 lives were lo...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: American Red Cross Official Photograph. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. O... More

The scene of the Tuscania disaster, revisited: shores of Kilnaughton, Port Ellen, Islay, Scotland, where many bodies of Tuscania victims came ashore. Photo taken form a corner of the Tuscania cemetary. The town of Port Ellen is just visible across the bay

The scene of the Tuscania disaster, revisited: shores of Kilnaughton, ...

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: Tuscania Disaster. Data: New England Div. Atlantic Di... More

The firing squad of the burial of the victims of the Otranto disaster. The scene is just outside the little village of Kilchoman, Islay, Scotland, overlooking the scene of the disaster. 199 bodies were buried here on Oct. 11, when this photograph was taken. Nearest the camera are the two "Laird's Pipers", employees of Sir Hugh Morrison, Laird of Islay. The firing sqaud is composed of members of the local company of "Volunteers." All of them had been engaged night and day for four days in the work of rescue and recovery

The firing squad of the burial of the victims of the Otranto disaster....

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group title: Otranto Disaster, England. On caption card: D-213. Data: Sent to divisions. Date based on date of negatives in same range. Gift; American Nat... More