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Casualty Info
Home Town Oneonta, Alabama
Last Address 504 3rd St Pratt City, AL (now Birmingham, AL) (Mother's Home)
Casualty Date Oct 15, 1917
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location North Atlantic Ocean
Conflict World War I
Location of Interment American Cemetery - Brookwood, United Kingdom
Wall/Plot Coordinates Tablets of the Missing (cenotaph)
Camp Ingram Camp Ingram (now known as Ingram Plaza) was named in honor of Gunner?s Mate 1st Class Osmond K. Ingram, U. S. Navy, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroic action aboard the destroyer Cassin, in World War I.
On Oct. 16,1917, he observed a torpedo approaching the ship and went to the stern to remove certain explosives. He died when the torpedo struck and exploded. The camp at which new enlisted sailors reported then bore the name of a man whose actions best characterized the qualities desirable in an enlisted man.