WWI · Battle Death Record
Irving Slicklen
Boy First Class, U.S. Coast Guard · New York
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Irving Slicklen
- Entered the Service From
- New York
- Rank
- Boy First Class
- Service
- U.S. Coast Guard
- Unit / Regiment
- USCGC Tampa
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- September 26, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
- Grave
- Wall of the Missing
Their story
Irving A. Slicklen enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard in New York City on March 1, 1918, at age 15, and served aboard the cutter USCGC Tampa. On September 26, 1918, the Tampa was torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine UB-91 in the Bristol Channel off England, going down in under three minutes with the loss of all 130-plus aboard; no bodies were recovered. He is memorialized on the Wall of the Missing at Brookwood American Cemetery in England.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
This record is one of more than 200,000 in our historical archive. Some information may have been corrupted or lost over decades of data conversion. Corrections are welcome — please contact the archive.