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Post by Administrator on Nov 8, 2007 19:46:53 GMT
On behalf of Chloed, Please say a prayer and think of her loved ones.
When I march on Sunday I will be remembering:
Robert King, died 26/9/1916 aged 20.
Benjamin King, died 14/11/1916 , 4 days before the end of the somme. aged 28.
William Winall died 13/7/1916 aged 26
and my father who served on the russian convoys on HMS ZEST and died in 1991. Chloed.
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Post by FAMILY on Nov 10, 2007 1:13:32 GMT
JAMES GREENWAY
THOMAS GREENWAY
JAMES GREENWAY
JAMES JOSEPH GREENWAY
SEAFARERS OF KINSALE REMEMBERED.
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Post by LEST WE FORGET on Nov 27, 2007 22:50:29 GMT
Remembered forever the various Captains and crews of the PS. Barry, so much more than a pleasure trip paddle steamer. A heroin built and named after the Town, of Barry, South Wales. (And Featured on our homepage at Tregenna, under other ships, in her Centenery year.) especially by Captain Joe Earl in his poem, dedicated to the memory to this Lady of the waves.
1907 - The PADDLE STEAMER `BARRY` - 2007
Cheers to the pleasure steamer – popular and fast,
With a jaunty rake of funnel and bunting from the mast,
Paddles swooshing easily foaming as they churn,
Leaving wake – ruler straight, trailing there astern.
Her glossy shining paintwork of red and pearly white,
Flying proud the ensign on halyard whipping tight,
The cheering of the passengers leaning on the rail,
And jingle of the telegraph when about to sail.
The fascinating engines steaming hell for leather,
Captain’s orders from the bridge open to the weather,
Called upon in wartime years for such sterling work,
Plus helping out the Navy and Army at Dunkirk.
One such vessel of renown was the P.S. Barry,
Famous in the Great War for troops she had to carry,
Outstanding in Gallipoli and last from Suvla Bay,
Serving at Salonika toiled in danger’s way.
She was built upon the Clyde one hundred years ago,
Excursion fit for passengers on deck and down below,
Registered in Barry - in her early years,
Calling in the Channel ports mooring at the piers.
Ilfracombe or Weston, down to old Minehead,
Burnham and the Mumbles - then home in time for bed,
She gave so many people, hours of bracing pleasure,
Merrymaking families enjoying days to treasure.
Later on in `twenty-six she worked our southern climes,
Sailing out of Brighton and Hastings many times,
Then sweeping mines in `forty-one on a fatal run,
She perished in the North Sea, sunk there by the Hun.
It’s right recalling history of South Wales long ago,
Of local crew and seamen sailing to and fro,
For they worked the paddle steamers giving them their power,
In our favorite waters – from Bristol to the Gower.
The Paddle Steamer Barry was built for the Barry Railway Company’s fleet and sailed on May 24, 1907, before leaving the Clyde to begin her pleasure steamer career from Barry and the Bristol Channel.
J.S.EARL 2007
Joe was born in Sheffield in 1941. He left home at the age of 14 to attend the training ship `Indefatigable` in Anglesey, after almost two years there, he went to sea as Deck Boy in the Merchant Navy. He later obtained his Master's certificate and commanded ten ships during his career including five years as Captain of the Bristol Steam Navigation's `MV Apollo`. After being made redundant in 1991 he became a Tug Master working out of Avonmouth and Portbury until taking early retirement in October 2000. He now lives in Sand Bay, Weston-Super-Mare.
J.S.Earl. Bristol M.N.A.
Joe has kindly penned tributes to both the SS. Tregenna and Daybreak and a collection of work’s to commemorate and remember. We are proud to be associated and honoured to be allowed to use such material in our tribute. Thank you Joe. Forever in your debt.
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Post by KEITH GREENWAY on Dec 24, 2007 23:37:43 GMT
90th Anniversary of the loss of the SS Daybreak.
CHRISTMAS EVE
24th December 1917.
Daybreak SS was a 3,238grt defensively-armed British merchantship. On the 24th December 1917 when on route from Huelva for the Clyde she was torpedoed by German submarine U087 and sunk when 1 mile East from South Rock Light Vessel, Ireland. 21 lives lost. including Master. Owner Elvidge & Morgan, Cardiff.
For the record, the SS Daybreak was sunk as a result of a torpedo fired without warning by a German submarine on Christmas Eve 1917 near South Rock Lightship, Strangford Lough, off the Ards Peninsula, Co Down. Previous records stated that the vessel was sunk at Lough Swilly and this is even mentioned in the memorial card of Thomas Greenway, boatswain, aged 47, son of the late James and Mary Greenway and husband of the late Nora Greenway.
Two other men from the same town of Kinsale who died that day were: James Barrett, ordinary seaman, aged 18, son of Patrick and Hannah Barrett, Fisher Street (now Lower O’Connell Street). William O’Connor, able seaman, aged 39, son of Michael and Ellen O’Connor and husband of Ellen (nee McCarthy), Higher (O’Connell) Street. He was born at Brownsmills.
Although a British ship registered in West Hartlepool on the North East coast of England, she was defensively armed due to the state of hostilities and actually survived a U-boat attack in the Arctic Ocean on November 1, 1916.
An eye witness, John Bailie of Newcastle, a boat contractor attending the South Rock Lightship, recalled the loss of the steamer one mile east. “I remember being on the South Rock as a temporary for 2/6 a day, feed yourself. On Christmas Eve 1917 at about midday, the Daybreak, loaded with maize, was torpedoed and 21 were lost. Her nose was cut clean off. It happened so quick her propeller was going round in the air as she sank. You talk about explosions, boilers were bursting one after another”.
On Christmas Day, the same U-boat 87 attacked a convoy in the Irish Sea but sank after being rammed by the sloop HMS Buttercup and British patrol boat PC56. All of its 44 crew perished.
The names of all casualties of the Daybreak are listed at the Merchant Navy Association’s Commonwealth War Dead Memorial at Tower Hill, London (which has a total of 22,000 names).
In 1998, Jim Greenway, of Barry presented the World War 1 medals of his Grandfather Thomas to Kinsale Regional Museum at a function in the Municipal Hall, Kinsale.
“Roll on, roll on, on western deep. That lulled my lovely boy to sleep.
Were I to know Lough Swilly’s shore. Would be your grave for evermore,
I‘d clasp you to my loving heart, And never would I let you part”.
90th Anniversary of the loss of the SS. Daybreak.
Captain and crew.
POPE, Master, S F,
OWEN, First Mate, WILLIAM,
DOBSON, Second Mate,
GREENWAY, Boatswain (Bosun), THOMAS,
SUMNER, Signalman, FRANK,
HARROP-GRIFFITHS, Second Engineer, JOSEPH,
POSTLETHWAITE, Steward, TOM BENNETT,
GULWELL, Mess Room Steward, ERNEST,
HOLLAND, Ship's Cook, JAMES ALLCOCK,
VERNEY, Able Seaman, SAMUEL,
FREDERICKSEN, Able Seaman, T,
COLLINS, Able Seaman, W,
GOMEZ, Able Seaman, JACINE,
O'CONNOR, Able Seaman, WILLIAM,
BIANCHI, Fireman, PAOLO,
KENNEDY, Fireman, JOSEPH,
MUSCAT, Fireman, MICHAEL,
WILKINS, Fireman, W,
PEPPER, Ordinary Seaman, THOMAS
BARRETT, Ordinary Seaman, JAMES,
ARCHANGEL ALLIED CEMETERY, Russian Federation
ROSS, Ordinary Seaman, JOHN HAMILTON, J/51016, S.S. "Daybreak.", Royal Navy.
Killed by an internal explosion of the vessel 8 November 1916. Age 21.
They Bore the Brunt
By Joe Earl
They sailed the seas to bear the brunt,
They steamed the courses laid,
Ten thousand miles their battle front,
Unbacked and undismayed.
Fine seamen these of our great race,
From your seaport or town,
They risked their lives with danger faced
Until their ship went down.
Remember them - they held the line,
Won freedom on the way,
Remember them - their life was thine -
On merchant navy day.
J.Earl
“Her name was “Daybreak”.
The S.S. DAYBREAK
Nineteen seventeen it was – during perilous days,
The freighter S.S. Daybreak loaded deep with maize,
Steamed along on Christmas Eve near the Southern Rock,
Off the coast of County Down abeam of Strangford Lough,
No notice or forewarning, a torpedo found its mark,
It came and blew the nose right off – plunging all in dark
The vessel’s screw rotating during its descent,
Her boilers then exploding as underneath they went.
U – Boat Eighty Seven had loosed her lethal load,
To meet this helpless target on a winter’s ocean road,
One and twenty brave men - the total of her crew,
Murdered in the Irish Sea by folk they never knew,
It was seen by witnesses or perhaps we’d never know,
What occurred to brave men dragged down far below,
Entombed there now forever, thirty fathoms deep,
Akin to unsung mariners in Davy Jones’s keep.
Joe EARL
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Post by FRIEND OF TREGENNNA on Dec 24, 2007 23:46:12 GMT
CHRISTMAS 1917 - HOW DEEP THEIR GRAVES
Canova, 4,637grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 15 miles South from Mine Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 7 lives lost
Daybreak, 3,238grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 1 mile East from South Rock LV, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 21 lives lost including Master
Turnbridge, 2,874grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 34 miles NE by N from Cape Ivi, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost
Argo, 3,071grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 18 miles NW from Cape Tenez, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine
Cliftondale, 3,811grt, defensively-armed, 25 December 1917, 36 miles E by N ½ N from Cape Tenez, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 3 lives lost, Master prisoner
Agberi, 4,821grt, defensively-armed, 25 December 1917, 18 miles NW ½ N from Bardsey Island, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine
Umballa, 5,310grt, defensively armed, 25 December 1917, 8 miles SW by W from Cape Scalea, Gulf of Policastro, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 15 lives lost
Tregenna, 5,772grt, defensively-armed, 26 December 1917, 9 miles south from Dodman Point, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine
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Post by Souls Of The Sea on Jun 1, 2008 17:15:17 GMT
SOULS OF THE SEA
THE TRAGEDY OF THE PERE CHARLES AND HONEY DEW II
In January 2007, within the space of only six days, three fishing boats - the Pere Charles, Honey Dew II and the Renegade - capsized and sank off Ireland's southern coast. Of the eleven crewmen on board the three vessels, seven lost their lives in storm-force winds and waves.
In Souls of the sea, Damien Tiernan gets to the heart of the tragedy that stunned Ireland and made headlines around the world. He talks the families of those who drowned, to survivors from the sunken boats, to the rescue crews and weather forecasts, and to the ordinary people who turned out in their hundreds to search the shoreline for clues as to what happened.
He also recounts the dramatic raising of the two boats, including the Pere Charles, in November 2007- sadly for the relatives, though perhaps not unexpectedly, no bodies were recovered.
A vivid picture emerges of brave and resourceful men and women who continueto forge unique communities in the face of adversity.
SOULS OF THE SEA: is also a memorial to the seven men who were lost:
GER BOHAN
PAT COADY
ANDREY DYRIN
PAT HENNESSY
TOM HENNESSY
TOMASZ JAGHY
BILLY O'CONNOR
( Damien Tierney is RTE's Southern Correspondent )
A percentage of the royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the Royal National Lifeboat Institute.
'Thomas Tierneys book is a heart-rending account of tragedy and loss'
We reproduce the information above as the book intends: Dedicated to the fishermen and women and their families.
WE RECALL THE WORDS OF John Mc Dermott, BOTH USED AND FORWARDED TO KINSALE, Co. CORK AT THE TIME.
The British Merchant Navy
Looking for old friends
merchant-navy.net
Hi Keith, We pray and hope for the return of our fishermen to their families, as I was born into a fishing community I know how much this means to them. Just short of fifty years ago one of our trawlers was lost just outside Dunmore East. As a boy I remember standing in main street in Killybegs, Co. Donegal in the rain as our men returned in three light coloured pine coffins. The trawler was named the Jack Buchan. The Killybegs community offer their prayers today for the men and their families. We as Merchant Seamen are aware of the close link with fishermen and, the Lifeboats stationed around our coast. Many of us have been offered the life saving hand of a fisherman in foul weather from that Lifeboat.
Kind Regards John Mc Dermott
RE : John Mc Dermott - Message, John I hope at a suitable time to make the families and relatives aware of this and the merchant-navy.net site and all the kind words, may I pass yours on to the Mayor of Kinsale, Cannon Williams, The Harbour Board Authorities and Lifeboats at Courtmacsherry and Kinsale, Eire and also Barry, South Wales. I cannot send them all so no offence to anyone else, but maybe as part of a tribute John on this occasion could represent you all. I do hope that the authorities and communities of all home ports / towns of those lost, hoped to be found, more than likely departed. RIP. will look in and thank you themselves.
Thank you again. Keith and all at Her Name Was SS.
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Post by KEITH AT TREGENNA on Dec 2, 2008 19:59:26 GMT
Honour bid for youngest war hero
The bravery of a 14-year-old boy, the youngest from Britain to die serving in World War II, should be remembered say campaigners.
Raymond Steed was a galley boy on a Merchant Navy ship when it was blown up after hitting a German mine off the African coast in 1943.
The teenager from Newport was just 14 years and 207 days old when he died, five months after joining up. Merchant Navy Association officials now want a statue erected in his honour.
Raymond and 20 crew mates died in April 1943 after his ship, the Empire Morn, exploded after hitting a U-Boat mine near its destination of Casablanca, Morocco. His body was recovered and buried in the Ben M'Sik military cemetery near the city, alongside him lays British Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck – just as the Field Marshal requested.
He has been officially recognised by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission as the youngest recorded fatality of the British service war dead.
Joining in December 1942, he served on the hospital ship Atlantis where he was awarded the Africa Star with clasp during Operation Torch when Allied troops landed on the beaches of North Africa. Then he transferred to the freighter Empire Morn as it set off in convoy from Milford Haven for Gibraltar and Casablanca where it was hit.
Merchant Navy Association officials are now fundraising for the money needed for a statue in honour of Raymond in Newport. Vice-president of the association Bertram Bale, 75, said:
"A memorial to Raymond would honour not only him but all the seamen who were killed in the war.”
"It would also be a fitting tribute to the sacrifices made by those unsung heroes who died on all convoys in all wars."
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Post by KEITH AT TREGENNA on Dec 20, 2008 23:31:09 GMT
Christmas Eve 1917.
From the Memorial Card of Thomas Greenway (of Kinsale)
One sad year has passed away
Since our great sorrow fell,
But in our hearts we mourn the loss
Of those we loved so well.
We think of him in silence,
And his name we oft recall:
But there’s nothing left to answer,
But his picture on the wall.
Sacred Heart of Jesus
HAVE MERCY ON THE SOUL OF:
THOMAS GREENWAY
Who lost his life off “SS. Daybreak”.
On 24th December, 1917.
Aged 45 years.
RIP
Most merciful Jesus, lover of souls we beseech Thee,
by the agony of Thy Most Sacred Hearth and by the
sorrows of Thy immaculate Mother, cleanse in Thy
blood the soul of Thy servant – Amen.
Roll on, Roll on, on Western deep,
That loved my lovely boy to sleep.
Were I to know Lough Swilly’s shore
Would be your grave for evermore,
I’d clasp you to my loving heart,
And never would I let you part.
The SS Daybreak was sunk as a result of a torpedo fired without warning by a German submarine on Christmas Eve 1917 near South Rock Lightship, Strangford Lough, off the Ards Peninsula, Co Down. Previous records stated that the vessel was sunk at Lough Swilly and this is even mentioned in the memorial card of Thomas Greenway.
Although a British ship registered in West Hartlepool on the North East coast of England, she was defensively armed due to the state of hostilities and actually survived a U-boat attack in
the Arctic Ocean on November 1, 1916.
Three Kinsale men amongst the crew died that day, they were: James Barrett, ordinary seaman, aged 18, son of Patrick and Hannah Barrett, Fisher Street (now Lower O’Connell Street).
William O’Connor, able seaman, aged 39, son of Michael and Ellen O’Connor and husband of Ellen (nee McCarthy), Higher (O’Connell) Street. He was born at Brownsmills.
Thomas Greenway, boatswain, aged 47, son of the late James and Mary Greenway and husband of the late Nora Greenway.
An eye witness, John Bailie of Newcastle, a boat contractor attending the South Rock Lightship, recalled the loss of the steamer one mile east. “I remember being on the South Rock as a temporary for 2/6 a day, feed yourself. On Christmas Eve 1917 at about midday, the Daybreak, loaded with maize, was torpedoed and 21 were lost. Her nose was cut clean off. It happened so quick her propeller was going round in the air as she sank. You talk about explosions, boilers were bursting one after another”.
On Christmas Day, the same U-boat 87 attacked a convoy in the Irish Sea but sank after being rammed by the sloop HMS Buttercup and British patrol boat PC56. All of its 44 crew perished..
The names of all casualties of the Daybreak are listed at the Merchant Navy Association’s Commonwealth War Dead Memorial at Tower Hill, London (which has a total of 22,000 names). In 1998, Jim Greenway, of Barry presented the World War 1 medals of his Grandfather Thomas to Kinsale Regional Museum at a function in the Municipal Hall, Kinsale.
The Daybreak is remembered in a poem by Captain Joe Earl.
The S.S. DAYBREAK
Nineteen seventeen it was – during perilous days,
The freighter S.S. Daybreak loaded deep with maize,
Steamed along on Christmas Eve near the Southern Rock,
Off the coast of County Down abeam of Strangford Lough,
No notice or forewarning, a torpedo found its mark,
It came and blew the nose right off – plunging all in dark
The vessel’s screw rotating during its descent,
Her boilers then exploding as underneath they went.
U – Boat Eighty Seven had loosed her lethal load,
To meet this helpless target on a winter’s ocean road,
One and twenty brave men - the total of her crew,
Murdered in the Irish Sea by folk they never knew,
It was seen by witnesses or perhaps we’d never know,
What occurred to brave men dragged down far below,
Entombed there now forever, thirty fathoms deep,
Akin to unsung mariners in Davy Jones’s keep.
Joe Earl
Honoured also at Tower Hill is James Greenway, Brother to Thomas who was boatswain on the SS Tregenna, built at West Hartlepool in 1919 but registered in St. Ives, Cornwall when it was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-65 while in convoy North West of Rockall in the Atlantic Ocean while on a return voyage from Philadelphia to Newport, Monmouthshire, with a cargo of 8,000 tons of steel during World War II on
September 17, 1940. Thirty-three died and four survived. James Greenway was aged 62.
Another Irishman to perish was ordinary seaman Michael O’Brien from Arklow.
CHRISTMAS 1917 - HOW DEEP THEIR GRAVES
Canova, 4,637grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 15 miles South from Mine Head, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 7 lives lost
Daybreak, 3,238grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 1 mile East from South Rock LV, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 21 lives lost including Master
Turnbridge, 2,874grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 34 miles NE by N from Cape Ivi, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 1 life lost
Argo, 3,071grt, defensively-armed, 24 December 1917, 18 miles NW from Cape Tenez, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine
Cliftondale, 3,811grt, defensively-armed, 25 December 1917, 36 miles E by N ½ N from Cape Tenez, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 3 lives lost, Master prisoner
Agberi, 4,821grt, defensively-armed, 25 December 1917, 18 miles NW ½ N from Bardsey Island, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine
Umballa, 5,310grt, defensively armed, 25 December 1917, 8 miles SW by W from Cape Scalea, Gulf of Policastro, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine, 15 lives lost
Tregenna, 5,772grt, defensively-armed, 26 December 1917, 9 miles south from Dodman Point, torpedoed without warning and sunk by submarine
They Bore the Brunt
By Joe Earl
They sailed the seas to bear the brunt,
They steamed the courses laid,
Ten thousand miles their battle front,
Unbacked and undismayed.
Fine seamen these of our great race,
From your seaport or town,
They risked their lives with danger faced
Until their ship went down.
Remember them - they held the line,
Won freedom on the way,
Remember them - their life was thine -
On merchant navy day.
J.Earl
SS. Daybreak: Captain and crew.
POPE, Master, S F,
OWEN, First Mate, WILLIAM,
DOBSON, Second Mate,
GREENWAY, Boatswain (Bosun), THOMAS,
SUMNER, Signalman, FRANK,
HARROP-GRIFFITHS, Second Engineer, JOSEPH,
POSTLETHWAITE, Steward, TOM BENNETT,
GULWELL, Mess Room Steward, ERNEST,
HOLLAND, Ship's Cook, JAMES ALLCOCK,
VERNEY, Able Seaman, SAMUEL,
FREDERICKSEN, Able Seaman, T,
COLLINS, Able Seaman, W,
GOMEZ, Able Seaman, JACINE,
O'CONNOR, Able Seaman, WILLIAM,
BIANCHI, Fireman, PAOLO,
KENNEDY, Fireman, JOSEPH,
MUSCAT, Fireman, MICHAEL,
WILKINS, Fireman, W,
PEPPER, Ordinary Seaman, THOMAS
BARRETT, Ordinary Seaman, JAMES,
ARCHANGEL ALLIED CEMETERY, Russian Federation
ROSS, Ordinary Seaman, JOHN HAMILTON, J/51016, S.S. "Daybreak.", Royal Navy.
Killed by an internal explosion of the vessel 8 November 1916. Age 21.
We attempt to spare a thought for all:
Christmas Day, MN Day and every Day.
LEST WE FORGET.
"Let those who come after see to it that his name be not forgotten".
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Post by KESWICK AT WAR on Dec 21, 2008 19:21:06 GMT
CHRISTMAS EVE 1917. WE REMEMBER: THOMAS BENNET POSTLETHWAITE age 62 Merchant Navy SS Daybreak 24th Dec 1917 Husband of Mary Postlethwaite (nee Robinson), of Brookside, Applethwaite, Keswick keswick.ww1.googlepages.com/rollofhonourntoz |
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Post by Administrator on Jan 10, 2009 22:47:41 GMT
In Memory of Rifleman JOHN SWINDLE 18/908, 12th Bn., Royal Irish Rifles who died age 24 on 29 May 1917 Son of George and Elizabeth Swindle, of Railway St., Comber, Co. Down. Remembered with honour POND FARM CEMETERY Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=454246 |
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Post by KG on Mar 16, 2009 0:35:16 GMT
In Memory of Fireman and Trimmer HERBERT HENRY PHIPPS S.S. Loch Maddy (Glasgow), Merchant Navy who died age 31 on 21 February 1940 Son of E. Phipps, and of Ada Phipps, of Barry, Glamorgan. Remembered with honour TOWER HILL MEMORIAL Commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2792619www.cwgc.org/search/certificate.aspx?casualty=2792619Phipps, Paul A 18/3/1943 CLARISSA RADCLIFFE In Memory of: Fireman and Trimmer PAUL AGUSTUS PHIPPS S.S. Clarissa Radcliffe (London), Merchant Navy who died age 33 on 09 March 1943 Remembered with honour TOWER HILL MEMORIAL |
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