Thomas M McGough served in the U.S. Army for 2 years and 11 months. Thomas served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Patrolman Thomas McGough succumbed to burns sustained six weeks earlier when he and Patrolman Leonard Lamatrice responded to an accident on US 22. A tanker truck had overturned on the bottom of a hill at N 7th Street. As the two officers exited their patrol car the spilled gasoline caught fire and both officers were engulfed by the flames. Patrolman Lamatrice died of his injuries five weeks after the accident. Patrolman McGough suffered burns over 75 percent of his body and died six weeks later. Patrolman McGough was a US Army veteran of the Vietnam War and had served with the Steubenville Police Department for 1 year.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman McGough gave the Steubenville Police Department 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Steubenville community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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