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Off the southernmost tip of the island of Islay stands a monument, similar in appearance to a lighthouse, which was erected by the American Government in 1919 as a memorial to those who died on a bitterly cold February evening in 1918. |
| 30/12/2015 |
When the torpedo struck the Tuscania there were 39 men toiling in her boiler-rooms stoking coal. Not one of them survived. Fireman Hugh Caulfield was one of those 39 men who died that day. He was 38 years old. |
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The Anchor liner Tuscania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat in the Irish Sea some seven miles south-west of Islay on 5th February 1918. On board were 2,235 American soldiers who were heading for Europe. A total of 166 soldiers and seamen lost their lives in the sinking of the Tuscania. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Hugh Caulfield signed up as T Kelly. |
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The CWGC record that he was the husband of Mary Caulfield, nee Carley, of Meeting Street, Maghera, County Derry. There has never been a Meeting Street in Maghera. However, there was a Caulfield family living in Meeting Street in Magherafelt in both census results. |
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GRONI records suggest only one Hugh Caulfield was born between 1878 and 1882. He was born to Hugh and Mary Caulfield on 10th July 1882 in Derry. |
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According to military records Hugh Caulfield was born about 1880 in Ireland. |
