https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/browse?tags=flag+ceremony&sort_field=Dublin+Core%2CCreator&output=atom2024-03-29T02:01:02+00:00Omekahttps://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/10417 The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.]]>2018-10-24T19:31:10+00:00
Dublin Core
Title
Posting of the Colors
Alternative Title
Flag Ceremony
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
Memorials--Florida
Description
The posting of the colors ceremony at the Geneva Community Center in Geneva, Florida. Three men stand behind the recently mounted flags to the left of a white podium with a red, white and blue ribbon.
The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.
Creator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Source
Original color photograph: RICHES, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Genealogical Society, Inc. 100 Year Memorial remembering Roderick 'Perry' Taylor and the 564 persons who lost their lives on the R.M.S. Leinster Oct. 10, 1918, WWI, Irish Sea. October 10, 2018.
100 Year Memorial Remembering Roderick Perry Taylor
Alternative Title
Roderick Perry Taylor Memorial
Subject
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
Memorials--Florida
Description
The Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. held a 100 year memorial on October 10, 2018, for Roderick Perry Taylor of Geneva, Florida, and the other 564 people who died on the R.M.S. Leinster when it was hit by three German torpedoes in the Irish Sea on Oct. 10, 1918. Most of those killed were young military men and women. The ceremony was held at 2:00 PM at the Geneva Community Center. While memorials were also held on the same day in Ireland and other Allied countries, this was the only memorial in the United States that honored the six American soldiers who drowned.
Creator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Source
Original 30-minute and 26-second audio/video recording, Geneva Community Center, Geneva, Florida.
Genealogical Society, Inc. 100 Year Memorial remembering Roderick 'Perry' Taylor and the 564 persons who lost their lives on the R.M.S. Leinster Oct. 10, 1918, WWI, Irish Sea. October 10, 2018.