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He attended his wedding with his head bandaged from an auto accident he was in that morning while driving in a storm and he was cut by flying glass from the windshield.
He attended his wedding with his head bandaged from an auto accident he was in that morning while driving in a storm and he was cut by flying glass from the windshield.
After graduation from the Naval Academy, as an ensign, was assigned to the United States Ship Culgoa, a refrigerated supply ship. He was next assigned to the United States Ship Celtic and another refrigerated supply ship. He then was detached from Celtic in June 1916 to the battleship United States Ship Montana.
As a lieutenant, he served in World War I in the submarine L-2.
On board the British submarine HMS H5 as an observer, Lieutenant Childs was lost when H5 sank with all hands after a collision with a merchantman off the English coast. The destroyer United States Ship Childs (Doctor of Divinity-241) was named for him.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Childs was a member of the Naval Academy class of 1915.