U.S. Navy Deaths in the Spanish American War 1898
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This is a list of the eighteen U.S. Naval and Marine personnel who were killed in battle or died as a result of wounds received in battle. The Navy indicates that a total of twenty-nine Navy and Marine personnel were killed during the war. Presumably, the remaining eleven were killed in non-battle related incidents.
The List:
List of Navy personnel who were killed or mortally wounded in battle:
Bagley, Worth, Ensign - USS WINSLOW, May 11, 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba
Blakely, Frank I., Apprentice, 1st Class - USS TEXAS, on June 22, 1898, at Santiago, Cuba
Boardman, William H., Naval Cadet - USS AMPHITRITE, on August 7, 1898, at San Juan Puerto Rico
Dneefe, John, Fireman, 1st Class - USS WINSLOW, May 11, 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba
Dumply, William, Pvt., - U. S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Battalion, June, 1898 at Guantanamo, Cuba [Editor's note: the correct spelling of the name is Dumphy]
Ellis, George Henry, Chief Yeoman - USS BROOKLYN, on July 3, 1898 at Santiago, Cuba
Gibbs, John Blair, Assistant Surgeon - U. S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Battalion, June, 1898 at Guantanamo, Cuba
Goode, Henry, Sgt. Mjr., - U. S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Battalion, June, 1898 at Guantanamo, Cuba [Editor's note: the correct spelling of the name is Good]
Koulouris, Emmanouel, Coal Passer - USS BANCROFT, on August 2, 1898
McColgan, James - U. S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Battalion, June, 1898 at Guantanamo, Cuba
Meek, George Burton, Fireman, 1st Class - USS WINSLOW, May 11, 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba
Reagan, Patrick, Pvt. - U.S. Marine Corps, USS MARBLEHEAD, May 11, 1898 at Cienfuegos, Cuba
Smith, C. H., Sgt. - U. S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Battalion, June, 1898 at Guantanamo, Cuba [Editor's note: the full name is Charles Hampton Smith]
Suntzenich, Ernest, Apprentice, 1st Class - USS MARBLEHEAD, May 11, 1898 at Cienfuegos, Cuba
Taurman, Goode, Pvt. - U. S. Marine Corps, 1st Marine Battalion, June, 1898 at Guantanamo, Cuba
Tunnell, Elijah Banning, Cabin Cook - USS WINSLOW, May 11, 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba
Varvares, John. Oiler - USS WINSLOW, May 11, 1898 at Cardenas, Cuba
Widemark, Frank, Seaman - USS NEW YORK, May 12, 1898 at San Juan, Puerto Rico
Clerk of Joint Comittee on Printing, The Abridgement of Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress, Vol. 4 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1899) 705-706.
Pendeton, Robert - Noted corrections in surname spellings to those noted in the original document as Dumply, Goode and Smith (Sources used: the battalion's Muster Rolls; Marine Barracks, Brooklyn Navy Yard, April 1898, Camp Sampson, Key West, Florida; Camp McCalla, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Camp Heywood, Seavy Island, Kittery, Maine; U.S. Hospital Ship Solace, and various other U.S. Navy ships. Regarding Charles Hampton Smith, his full name was found using the Carroll County(Maryland) Genealogical Society's, "Carroll County Cemeteries", Volume Two: East-Central, Deer Park Methodist Church Cemetery, p. 57.)