Name:
Charles McGhee Tyson
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Second Lieutenant
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Naval Aviation
Date of Death:
1918-10-11
State:
New York
Cemetery:
Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee
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Charles McGhee Tyson was born on August 10, 1889 in Clifton Springs, New York to Lawrence Davis Tyson and Bettie Humes McGhee Tyson. He was graduated from Princeton college in 1912. Charles attended Naval Aviation Ground School at MIT in 1917 and then on to advanced air training in Pensacola, FL. In 1918, he was ordered to the US Naval Air Station in Killingholme, England. While involved in a dangerous mine-laying expedition, Lieutenant Tyson was killed when the large flying boat that he was in crashed into the River Humber. He is now buried in the Old Gray Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA. His mother later donated land for a park, called Tyson Park, and land for an airport in Knoxville known as McGhee Tyson.