Post by Admin K on Nov 8, 2015 0:51:35 GMT
ON A BIT OF A PERSONAL NOTE:
Family and friends etc will be remembering our own Thomas Greenway WW1 of Kinsale and his brother James WW2 also of Kinsale along with the thousands of Merchant Seamen lost in all conflicts. Support the armed forces, but also tribute the many MN men and women and children that went to sea.
"Until the latter part of the Great war of 1914-1918 there was no officially recognized uniform for the Merchant Service as it was then termed. Many, or in fact most, of the leading shipping companies had their own uniforms which were regarded with esteem, but they varied considerably in all ways. Some of the smaller companies of cargo ships had never adopted one at all.
Such was the service and sacrifice of the Mercantile Marine during the First World War that HM King George V decreed in 1928 that it should be known as the ‘Merchant Navy’. In the same year, the King instituted and conferred upon Edward, Prince of Wales, the title of ‘Master of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets’, an appointment now held by HM The Queen.
Although not lost in wartime, We also remember James Joseph Greenway, a young man of Kinsale. K