Rank/Rate: Ship’s Cook, Third Class

Service Number: 295 30 63

Birth Date: October 20, 1917

From: Nashville, Tennessee

Decorations: None

Submarine: USS Squalus (SS-192)

Loss Date: May 23, 1939

Location: Off New England Coast, near Isle of Shoals Circumstances Accidentally sank when engine rooms flooded

Remarks: Photo courtesy of Mary Mihovich. Information courtesy of Paul W. Wittmer.

NavSource, Submarine Photo Archive for the USS SQUALUS (SS-192)

Click here for a list of men lost on the USS Squalus SS-192

Find a Grave Memorial: Robert Preston Thompson, Nashville National Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee