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| Keywords: US certificate of honour for Michael Carroll.jpg Owen and Michael Carroll were two of the eleven children born to Tom and Margaret Carroll of Ballyconnigar Blackwater Co Wexford Owen was born in 1884 and worked on a lightship in Liverpool for a number of years He travelled to the US in 1909 to find work and lived in Long Island New York In 1916 he became a naturalised American citizen He worked on the Corsair a private cruise ship belonging to American industrialist J P Morgan jnr In May1917 the Corsair was chartered by the US Navy and in June of the same year the USS Corsair sailed from New York with the first contingent of the American Expeditionary Force to France arriving at Saint-Nazaire on 27 June During the war the USS Corsair crossed the war zone many times on convoy escort and rescued survivors of torpedoed vessels After the war Corsair was returned to her owner and once again became the private yacht Corsair II Owen returned to Ireland and married Catherine Corrigan of Ballyconnigar in 1922 He remained in Ireland and took up farming having inherited a farm from his aunt in Ballina Blackwater Co Wexford He died in 1969 Michael Carroll was born in January 1891 He followed his brother Owen to the US looking for work and took a job as a bartender He went to college to study medicine He was drafted in 1918 and had the choice of leaving the country or becoming an American citizen As he wanted to continue his medical studies he agreed to the terms of citizenship He enlisted as a Private in Casual Company 410 Medical Department and in September 1918 shipped out aboard the troop carrier HMS Otranto bound for Liverpool with American troops On 6 Oct 1918 during a heavy storm HMS Otranto collided with another troop-carrier HMS Kashmir in Machir Bay off the north coast of Islay Scotland The collision ripped a large hole in her side at the point where the ship ™s hospital was killing several men in the hospital Private Michael Carroll ™s body was washed ashore at Colonsay a small island near Islay a short while later He was buried in Kilchoman cemetery near Islay overlooking the sea He was 26 years old He had married Nellie Reilly in St Joseph of the Holy Family church in Upper Manhattan His death certificate was issued on 14 April 1919 and in the early 1920s Michael ™s wife Nellie requested that he be re-interred in Queen ™s Cemetery New York The church service for his re-interment took place in the church where they were originally married exhibition history object history object type Europeana 1914-1918 Copyright information Europeana 1914-1918 PD-own upload Europeana claims no rights in its digitisation in accordance with its http //pro europeana eu/publications/the-europeana-public-domain-charter Public Domain charter Europeana 1914-1918 project place of creation place of discovery http //www europeana1914-1918 eu/en/contributions/15811 US certificate of honour for Michael Carroll Uploaded with GWToolset US certificate of honour for Michael Carroll http //www europeana1914-1918 eu/attachments/167619/15811 167619 full jpg World War I Naval warfare of World War I Western Front theatre of World War I World War I commemoration Europeana 1914-1918 batch upload needs checking | ||||
