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=== <big>Roger Lancaster Braley</big> === | === <big>Roger Lancaster Braley</big> === | ||
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B"> | <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#00008B">Roger Lancaster Braley had been a Radioman aboard the [[S-4|'''USS S-4 (SS-109)''']] only days before her [https://pigboats.com/index.php?title=Notable_Submarine_Accidents#S-4_(SS-109),_Collision_with_USCGC_Paulding,_December_17,_1927 '''fatal ramming and sinking'''] by the [https://www.navsource.org/archives/05/022.htm '''USCGC Paulding (CG-17)''']. He had been discharged from the Navy through a clerical error and missed S-4's final run to sea. Technically, he was the only survivor. In early newspaper reports he is listed, in error, as having died in the sinking. | ||
Roger Lancaster Braley had been a Radioman aboard the USS S-4 only days before | |||
He was born May 3, (or May 18 by some sources), 1903. He was one of three children. His sister Doris was born May 29, 1909 and a brother Charles. His parents were Lorna Lancaster Braley and William E. Braley from Ayer, Massachusetts. | |||
After the sinking of the S-4 he was extensively interviewed about the chances of the crew to survive and who the identities of the six men in the bow could be. Like any submariner, he expressed what we all know about our boats and the dangers of submarining that is readily accepted by the crews. He expressed his desire to re-enlist and to ask for submarine duty again. We were unable to find out whether his efforts to reenlist were actually successful. Our feeling is that he was not as listings were found that show him as an auto mechanic, about which he was very proud in his in later years. He also worked as driver, a clerk, and a meat cutter but mostly spent his time as a merchant seaman. | |||
In the late 1930's he became interested in what was happening in Spain and in June 1938 joined the Spanish Loyalist forces. He was listed in their records as a | In the late 1930's he became interested in what was happening in Spain and in June 1938 joined the Spanish Loyalist forces. He was listed in their records as a "Soldado" in the XV BDE, Lincoln-Washington BN of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Taken captive in August 1938, he was later exchanged as a prisoner of war and sent back to the United States on the RMS Queen Mary. | ||
During WW II he served as a merchant seaman carrying goods and troops across the Atlantic on the liberty ship SS Joshua W. Alexander. The Joshua W. Alexander later was one of a small number of liberty ships to take part in the D-Day landing. If Braley was aboard at that time it is unknown. He is also listed as a crew member on the "Americas" on October 13, 1943. | During WW II he served as a merchant seaman carrying goods and troops across the Atlantic on the liberty ship SS Joshua W. Alexander. The Joshua W. Alexander later was one of a small number of liberty ships to take part in the D-Day landing. If Braley was aboard at that time it is unknown. He is also listed as a crew member on the "Americas" on October 13, 1943. | ||
Latest revision as of 15:08, 7 May 2025
Roger Lancaster Braley
He was born May 3, (or May 18 by some sources), 1903. He was one of three children. His sister Doris was born May 29, 1909 and a brother Charles. His parents were Lorna Lancaster Braley and William E. Braley from Ayer, Massachusetts.
After the sinking of the S-4 he was extensively interviewed about the chances of the crew to survive and who the identities of the six men in the bow could be. Like any submariner, he expressed what we all know about our boats and the dangers of submarining that is readily accepted by the crews. He expressed his desire to re-enlist and to ask for submarine duty again. We were unable to find out whether his efforts to reenlist were actually successful. Our feeling is that he was not as listings were found that show him as an auto mechanic, about which he was very proud in his in later years. He also worked as driver, a clerk, and a meat cutter but mostly spent his time as a merchant seaman.
In the late 1930's he became interested in what was happening in Spain and in June 1938 joined the Spanish Loyalist forces. He was listed in their records as a "Soldado" in the XV BDE, Lincoln-Washington BN of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Taken captive in August 1938, he was later exchanged as a prisoner of war and sent back to the United States on the RMS Queen Mary.
During WW II he served as a merchant seaman carrying goods and troops across the Atlantic on the liberty ship SS Joshua W. Alexander. The Joshua W. Alexander later was one of a small number of liberty ships to take part in the D-Day landing. If Braley was aboard at that time it is unknown. He is also listed as a crew member on the "Americas" on October 13, 1943.
He died November 24, 1967 while in New York City. It is unclear if he is buried there or in Fall River, Massachusetts.
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