My Great Uncle was Norman G. Crocker. First Texas A&M Aggie to die in WWI due to the sinking of the Tuscania.

Ronald Crocker

June 16, 2007

See  casualty list                                             <click here>

1918 Longhorn Yearbook                                <click here>

WWI Service Card                                          <click here>

Norman G. Crocker - Center, Texas

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: 6^th Bn., 20^th Engineers, Co. D (16^th Co.)

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Inducted: Dec. 13, 1917 Fort Sam Houston (age 27)

Army Discharge: Eternal Watch

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

   Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

   Texas A&M University Student Sept. 1912 – Dec. 1917

   ROTC student in the Ross Volunteers, TX A&M

   Crocker Hall at Texas A&M named in his honor (1942)

   First Texas A&M University student killed in WWI

   First soldier of Shelby County killed in WWI

   American Legion Post #541 named in his honor

   Features: Medium Height and build, blue eyes, light hair

Fathers Name: Thomas Nathaniel Crocker

 (b. Aug. 10, 1852 Middleton, TN) (d. Dec. 17, 1933 James, Texas)

Mothers Name: Margaret Melissa Thomas

 (b. Aug. 5, 1854 Ellijay, Georgia) (d. Nov. 22, 1934 James, Texas)

   Married: Jan. 13, 1876 Henderson, Tennessee

Brothers: Henry, Charles, Gehu, Clinton, and Thomas Crocker

Sisters: Elizabeth, Margaret, Eva, and Zera Crocker

Civilian Occupation:

Born: Jan. 19, 1890 Center, Texas

Died: Feb. 5, 1918 at sea, Coast of Scotland

  Buried in Kilnaughton, Islay Island, Scotland Feb. 12, 1918

  Body exhumed and relocated to Texas, 1920 or thereafter

Cemetery: Antioch Cemetery, Shelby Co., Texas

  Six miles East of Center, TX on Hwy. 7, turn right at FM #2608 

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