William G. Morris

158th Aero Squadron
	Donna Rhodes robdon72{at}comcast.net Niece

	My uncle, William Guy Morris, 23 yr. old, common name, Guy, was on the Tuscania. He was saved. I don't know how. He arrived in Ireland wearing seaman's clothes and could not stand because his legs had become so cold. We have a couple of pictures of them in Ireland after the rescue. One picture has 18 men in it. The other is two men with Guy on their shoulders. There are, unfortunately, no names on the pictures. The only other things I have is a couple of articles from newspapers, one the St. Joseph (MO) Gazette and the other the Bedford (IA) Free Press. Not a lot of info. other than he was in the "aviation branch" of the service. Donna M. Rhodes February 3, 2001
	I found out how my uncle Guy Morris survived the sinking. He had told the story to one of my cousins. (Pvt. William Guy Morris, 158th Aero Squadron) "that he was on that ship when it was hit by the Germans. There was not enough boats and log rafts for everyone so he jumped over the side into the water. The water was very cold and he knew that he needed to be quite a ways from the ship when it went down as it would suck downward as it sank. He swam as fast as he could in the cold water. All at once he saw a raft with lots men on it. They let him get on one of the logs that was sticking out from it a few feet. He wrapped his legs around the log and locked them together. When the English ship picked them up later they had to dive down under the logs and get his legs unlocked. He had no feeling in them but they were not frozen, just so cold that the blood was not moving at all. He told me that the English ship had liquor on board and they gave him plenty of it. That's all I know." Do you know any more about the log rafts? Would they have had them on the ship? Donna Rhodes July 27th, 2004