Post by Nora Theresa Davies on Aug 27, 2007 21:41:33 GMT
Our Tribute to a lovely lady, her dad, uncle, brother and relatives, friends and all others that have not come home, still from the sea.
RE: NORA THERESA DAVIES (Greenway)
Nora Greenway, lost her father in World War 1, (SS.Daybreak) in a U.Boat torpedo attack. Her uncle in WW2 (S.Tregenna) also by torpedo and her brother in a tragic accident (SS.Dudley Rose) 1938 between wars, so not properly recorded in any maritime records, so far found.
Her town of birth and adopted town in later life, both coastal ports bore heavy losses of Merchant Seamen. Barely one house in all neighbourhood’s, would not have been close to loss or losses.
My home town of Barry, South Wales, reported 12 MN Sailors lost from one street alone and 69 from three nearby streets. Nora, lost her closest family and many friends and was never far from someone grieving.
Her only recorded words from 1973 were:
“The dam war leave’s its mark with everyone who was in it”.
Nora Theresa Davies,nee Greenway.
In a letter to her niece, regarding her relatives husbands injury and health - 1st October 1973. Mooroopna, Australia, formerly of Barry, South Wales and Kinsale Co. Cork, Eire.
So few words from a lady that had suffered such loss, how many other words are lost in time. Sadly Nora passed on in 1985. her family remember her father, uncle, brother, friends and neighbours etc and all that never came home from the sea and of course Nora Greenway of Kinsale herself.
"LEST WE FORGET : ALL WHO SAIL OR HAVE SAILED ON THE SEA".
The Boatman of Kinsale
The wind that round the Fastnet sweeps
Is not a whit more pure.
The goat that round Cnoc Sheehy Leaps
Has not a foot more sure.
No firmer hand nor freer eye
E‘er faced an autumn gale –
De Courcy’s heart is not as high-
The Boatman of Kinsale
Thomas Davis.
RE: NORA THERESA DAVIES (Greenway)
Nora Greenway, lost her father in World War 1, (SS.Daybreak) in a U.Boat torpedo attack. Her uncle in WW2 (S.Tregenna) also by torpedo and her brother in a tragic accident (SS.Dudley Rose) 1938 between wars, so not properly recorded in any maritime records, so far found.
Her town of birth and adopted town in later life, both coastal ports bore heavy losses of Merchant Seamen. Barely one house in all neighbourhood’s, would not have been close to loss or losses.
My home town of Barry, South Wales, reported 12 MN Sailors lost from one street alone and 69 from three nearby streets. Nora, lost her closest family and many friends and was never far from someone grieving.
Her only recorded words from 1973 were:
“The dam war leave’s its mark with everyone who was in it”.
Nora Theresa Davies,nee Greenway.
In a letter to her niece, regarding her relatives husbands injury and health - 1st October 1973. Mooroopna, Australia, formerly of Barry, South Wales and Kinsale Co. Cork, Eire.
So few words from a lady that had suffered such loss, how many other words are lost in time. Sadly Nora passed on in 1985. her family remember her father, uncle, brother, friends and neighbours etc and all that never came home from the sea and of course Nora Greenway of Kinsale herself.
"LEST WE FORGET : ALL WHO SAIL OR HAVE SAILED ON THE SEA".
The Boatman of Kinsale
The wind that round the Fastnet sweeps
Is not a whit more pure.
The goat that round Cnoc Sheehy Leaps
Has not a foot more sure.
No firmer hand nor freer eye
E‘er faced an autumn gale –
De Courcy’s heart is not as high-
The Boatman of Kinsale
Thomas Davis.