Cpt.Frederick H. Kilgour---Caption Of The SMS Blücher Light Cruiser For The 1st German Riech Navy.
Born 1865
Inlisted 1885
Died 1905
Taken from released records of the Samoa incedent
Cpt.Frederick H. Kilgour was a man who swore he would give his life for his men and did. Born to a poor farming family he always had a need to be out on the sea and in 1885 when his father was killed by barn fire and his mother striken by sickness sign up in the Imperial German Navy and sored threw the ranks by pr…
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Posted on August 1, 2008 at 1:11am —