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Binger Journal News  Dec. 1943       <click here>

Binger Journal News   Jan. 1944      <click here> 

Binger Journal News   Jan. 1944      <click here>

My father-in-law, Earl Wilder Drake, was on the Tuscania when it was torpedoed. He was ill with the mumps! He was sent by life boat to Londonderry Ireland and stayed with a family until able to join his 357thInfantry in France. We have a postcard he sent from Verdun. Thanks

Mary Marie Drake

Aug. 27, 2007

Earl Wilder Drake - Binger, Oklahoma

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: Camp Travis (Texas) Casuals, Detachment #2

   90th Division, 357th Infantry: 1917 - 1918

   2nd Division, 9th Infantry, Co. L: 1918-

   Evacuation Hospital No. 8:

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Inducted:

Promoted:

Army Discharge: 1919

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919

  Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

  Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938)

  Address: Blackburn, Oklahoma (1910)

  Address: Binger Oklahoma (1912)(1944)

  Drake Hardware Company, Binger, OK (1938)

Wife’s Name: Marguerite Thompson (b. Houston, Texas)

  Married: December 25, 1920

Fathers Name:  Albert C. Drake (b. 1847 Illinois)

Mothers Name: Ester A. Bealey (b. 1855 Ohio)

Brothers: George & Charles Binger

Sisters: Lorena, Cletta, Julia, and Gilda Binger

Civilian Occupation: Postmaster

Born: July 19, 1891 Williamsfield, Illinois

Died: Dec. 30, 1943 Oklahoma City, OK (age 52)

   Cause of death: An Infection from an injury to the thumb.

  The infection spread and was unable to be controlled.

Cemetery:  Murray Cemetery (AKA Binger Cemetery) Binger, OK

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