ISOB Private Thomas Crotty - 5th Infantry Division, WW1
Details:
In the family lot; Grave 136.
Isolated Burial
An inscribed stone as part of the family grave plot.
The Isolate Burial (ISOB) of Private Thomas Crotty of Company D,61st Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry "Red Diamond" Division who was killed in action On October 13, 1918 during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Private Crotty was born in County Clare and immigrated to the US and lived in New York. After the war his remains were returned to Ireland in 1921 on the SS Orloch Head and he was buried in the family plot in Old Shanakyle Cemetery, Kilrush.
Source: https://ww2irishaviation.com/jpquinlan/irishdoughboys.htm
Monument Text:
On the lower plaque on the tomb:
CROTTY
In Loving Memory
of
my dear husband. MICHAEL CROTTY Henry St. Kilrush
who died 30th May 1930, aged 72
R. I. P.
Erected by his loving wife & family
also THOMAS J. CROTTY
who was killed in action in France Oct.1918 aged 30.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
5th Infantry Division
61st Infantry Regiment
61st Infantry Regiment, 5th Division
American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
Wars:
WWI
Battles:
Meuse-Argonne Offensive
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