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Casualty Info
Home Town Montevallo, Alabama
Last Address Lost At Sea
Casualty Date Jul 12, 1919
Cause KIA-Body Not Recovered
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location Antarctic Ocean
Conflict World War I/Aisne Campaign/Mining Operations, North Atlantic
Location of Interment Buried at Sea, North Atlantic Ocean
Born in Mansion House Kingswood, Montevallo, Alabama, USA on 15 Oct 1884 to Frank Ragan King and Frances Veda Snodgrass. Frank Ragan married Allene Adams and had a child. Killed In Action, 12 July 1919 in the North Atlantic.
U.S.S. RICHARD BUCKLEY (trawler, British owned), displacement 550 tons; sunk by a mine near Shetland Islands; 7 killed; 2 wounded.