John T. Carr

  John Thomas Carr was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, August 19, 1878, son of Thomas and Mary (Heffernan) Carr, who were both born in Ireland. He was an electrical engineer, and graduated from Massachusetts Nautical School on April 15, 1898. He married Margaret Marie Moy.
  Carr was a First Lieutenant of Engineers in the Coast Guard. On March 10, 1917, he was assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter "U.S.S. Tampa." He died September 26, 1918, when the "Tampa" was torpedoed by an enemy submarine and sunk in the Bristol channel.
A cenotaph memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, includes John T. Carr's name on the south face of the memorial, upper panel. The inscription reads:
Officers and Men
U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tampa
Sunk by enemy submarine in Bristol Channel
September 26, 1918
When all on board were lost

Another memorial to the Coast Guard, at Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial in Brookwood, Surrey, England, also contains John T. Carr's name.