Henry O. Binkley

Camp Travis Detachment #1
PHOTO	Janice Binkley janjanredsquaw@yahoo.com Granddaughter

	Henry Olan Binkley - Ralston, Oklahoma Army Rank: Private (1918). Assigned Unit: 165^th Depot Brigade, Camp Travis Detachment #1 Army Serial Number: Inducted: Promoted: Army Discharge: 1919 Remarks: Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919 Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918 Address: Sugar Creek, Kansas (1900) Address: P.O. Box 548, Hominy, Oklahoma (1910)(1938) Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938) Fathers Name: John J. Binkley (b. Feb. 8, 1862 Kansas) (d. Sept. 21, 1953 Ralston, Oklahoma) Mothers Name: Nettle L. Binkley (b. June 23, 1867 Illinois) (d. March 25, 1948 Ralston, Oklahoma) Brothers: Joseph, Charlie, Leslie, and Carl Binkley Sisters: Mollie, Diana, Lillian, and Marguerite Binkley Civilian Occupation: Born: Dec. 1894 Kansas Died: Cemetery: Plot:
My Grandfather Henry O. Binkley was on board the Tuscania when it was torpedoed on way to France, he and a serviceman friend from Oklahoma Tom Boone couldn’t get on over crowded life boats so they slid down ropes of Tuscania into the ocean and swam until they were picked up by rescuers from a destroyer, unknown name. He and Tom spent about 3 weeks in Londonderry Ireland recovering from rope burns on their hands. They shipped out out to England and boarded a ferry to France. He walked across France into Germany. H. O. Binkley was shot in the right knee July 1918, and was separated from T. Boone. H. O. Binkley recovered went back into battle and made Corporal. In Sept. of 1918 he was shot again in right side. He rehabbed in town along the Rhine River. H.O. Binkley had walked into Ahrueller, Germany December 1918. Went back to battle and policed until he got to come home to Oklahoma then was discharged May 1919. Tom Boone and H. O. Binkley both made it back to Oklahoma. Henry O. Binkley passed away in 1962, but his memory lives on. Janice Binkley November 10, 2004