Walter Ellsworth Reno

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Lieutenant Commander Walter Ellsworth Reno (3 October, 1881 – 19 November, 1917) served in the United States Navy.

Life & Career

Walter Ellsworth Reno was born in Davis County, Iowa on 3 October, 1881. He was appointed to Annapolis from Missouri and entered the U.S. Naval Academy on 7 September, 1901.[1] His classmates in the graduating class of 1905 included Chester W. Nimitz and Theodore G. Ellyson.

Reno was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 28 October, 1910.[2]

Lieutenant Commander Reno was killed when the Chauncey was rammed and sunk by the British freighter S.S. Rose in the early morning hours of 19 November, 1917.[3] One of the numerous new war production destroyers was subsequently named in his honor.

See Also

Bibliography

  • Feuer, A. B. (1999). The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers.

Service Records

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
George H. Bowdey
Captain of U.S.S. Chauncey
5 Apr, 1916[4] – 19 Nov, 1917
Succeeded by
Vessel Lost

Footnotes

  1. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 99.
  2. Register of Officers, 1917. pp. 30-31.
  3. Feuer. U.S. Navy in World War I. p. 23.
  4. Register of Officers, 1917. p. 30.

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