Royal Lawson Clagett

Hampstead, MD

1939, 791, Lightning Creek (Custer), F-14,

Royal Lawson Clagett, 86, of Westminster, Md., died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, at Carroll Lutheran Village. He was born Nov. 20, 1918, in Baltimore City.

Mr. Clagett was a 1935 graduate of Franklin High School and a 1953 graduate of Western Maryland College. He was an amateur photographer and an avid fisherman. He enjoyed trains, playing cards and friends and traveling around the world with his wife May Snider Clagett to whom he was married for 56 years.

Royal entered the U.S. Army Air Corps in November 1940 and served with both the 6th Air Force in Panama and the 14th Air Force in China during World War II. He flew the "hump" over China, India and Burma and ended up service with the 35th Photo Recon Squadron in Kumming, China while serving under General Claire Chennault. He was honorably discharged on October 20, 1945 with the rank of staff sergeant. His awards included the Asiatic-Pacific Service Medal, American Defense Service Medal and the American Theater Service Medal. Royal worked at Black and Decker in the Research and Development department. He received a Master Design Award for the engineering and invention of the 1/4' Cordless Electric Drill. He later worked at Charlie's Camping Center where he retired. He was a 50-year member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, Hampstead, where he served on various Committees through the years. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign War 467, the Hampstead Senior Center and was a charter member of the American Legion Post 200.

Royal L. Clagett served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1939. He served with Company 791 at Camp Lightning Creek F-14. Mr. Clagett's daughter Catherine Lynn contacted the CCC Museum of South Dakota with his service information.

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