100 Year Memorial Remembering Roderick Perry Taylor

100 Year Memorial Remembering Roderick Perry Taylor

Roderick Perry Taylor Memorial

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.

2018-10-10

2018-10-10

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Originally created by Geoffrey Cravero and published by RICHES.

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Cravero, Geoffrey

Tuchman, Barbara W., and Robert K. Massie. The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I. 2014.

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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.