Posting of the Colors
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
Memorials--Florida
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.<br /><br />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.
Cravero, Geoffrey
Original color photograph: <a href="https://riches.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES</a>, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
<a href="https://riches.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES</a>
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Geneva Community Center, Geneva, Florida
100 Year Memorial Remembering Roderick Perry Taylor
World War, 1914-1918
Veterans--Florida
Memorials--Florida
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.
Cravero, Geoffrey
Original 30-minute and 26-second audio/video recording, Geneva Community Center, Geneva, Florida.
<a href="https://riches.cah.ucf.edu/">RICHES</a>
Currie, Wanda
Dunham, Geoffrey
<a href="http://www.usgennet.org/usa/fl/county/seminole/Geneva/" target="_blank">Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc.<br /></a>
Lee, Richard H.
Martin, Mal
Martin, Mary Jo
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Geneva Community Center, Geneva, Florida