Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1919 — SCOTS DO HONOR TO YANKEE DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCOTS DO HONOR TO YANKEE DEAD

Glasgow Islay Association Issues Photographic Album of Tuscania Graves. OFFERED TO NEXT OF KIN Labor of Love to Show Relatives How Last Resting Places of Heroes^ — Are Cared For—Otranto Graves on Same island. Glasgow, Scotland. —Next of kin of the United States soldiers who went down with the Tuscania may now secure the “Photographic Album of the American Soldiers’ Graves in Islay,” which has been forwarded for distribution to the American Red Cross, bureau of communications, Washington, D. C. This album is dedicated “to the memory of the brave men who perished through the torpedoing of the S. S. Tuscania on the sth of February, 1918—‘Their name liveth evermore’.” A statement by Dugald Clark, B. D„ honorary president, and other officers Of tfie Glasgow Islay association, thus In part explains the album: “Sympathetic hearts and loving bands were not wanting to pay due

honor to the gallant dead. Large crowds from all—parts- of "the island ter pay their tribute of* respect to the memory of the fallen; an<L after solemn services the bodies different and specially selected ceme-

teries at Port Charlotte, Kilnaughton, Kinabus and Killeyan. In numerous homes in America Tsiny will now ho a household w'ord and to many of our kinsmen across the seas it will be the scene of loving pilgrimages in the coming years. But there will be many who, though the name of Islay will Touch the deepest chords ill their hearts, will never be able to visit It and see the place where their beloved rest. It may afford them some comfort and satisfaction. jpoa,--sess photographs of the graves which will In some measure visualize to their minds the beautiful spots where their dear ones lie sleeping. With this end in view the Glasgow Islay association, composed of natives of Islay resident in the Second City of the Empire, prepares this album and we offer it now with every mark of profound sorrow and respectful sympathy for acceptance by the next of kin of the bereaved-whose-remains mingle with the dust of onr beloved island.” The frontispiece of the albunj Is a drawing in color of the monument, designed by Robert j. Walker of Glasgow, which the American Red Cross will erect at Mull, Islay. There are seven reproductions xrf photographs of the American graves in the four cemeteries. Numbered lists and diagrams make it easy to locate each of the 169 graves; 12, however, contain “unknown dead.” The burial plots .are in

beautiful order and the association is pledged to their upkeep. The monument at Mull will also serve as a memorial to the American soldiers who perished in the Otranto disaster and are buried at Kilchoman, Islay. The transport Otranto and the transport Kashmir, both carrying American troops to France, collided off Islay October 6, 1018, in a gale and thick weather. The Otranto drifted ashore and was wrecked with the loss of 366 American soldiers. This rocky island off the southwest coast of Scotland was thus the scene of -tire only considerable-disasters in the transportation of the millions of American soldiers to France. Its American graves make it sacred ground. The work of the Glasgow Islay association has been a labor of love.

Islay Monument.