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    Same Person just another Snip
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    Great finds both DeepSea and Doc.

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    Hi Maureen.
    Many young lads lost they're lives serving in the MN during the war. My brother and his mate joined up together and went to the Vindicatrix sea school, when they had completed their three months training they joined different ships, my brother went through the war unscathed, but his mate Ronnie's ship was torpedoed and he was killed on his first trip. Over 500 young boys around that age were killed at sea. These days they would have been in school.
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    Sad tale but, thanks for adding this.

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    Thank you 😊

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    Thank you for sharing that with me Des. Yes this is what I find unbelievable now - they would be at school .

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    WOW ! I was talking to my mum yesterday about all the wonderful information I have received on this site and she is so happy. For so many years there was just nothing. Her dear brother was there , then gone. She said “ Mum and Dad wouldn’t have known where to start to find anything out and if they were still here to hear all of these stories....”
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    I love this quote Billy .

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    GALLEY, Ordinary Seaman, WILLIAM THOMAS, S.S. Kayeson (London). Merchant Navy. 2nd October 1940. Age 16. Son of William and Margaret E. Galley, of Orsett, Essex.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maureen Wright View Post
    I sadly never knew my Uncle, William Thomas Galley. The family was under the impression that he had been on a ship called Faraday that had been sunk and as a child I remember that they had a large picture on the wall “the Faraday”. They even called their bungalow by that name. Billy had apparently told them that this was the ship he had been assigned to.

    Years later, I went to Tower Hill to find his name with no success. My Mum was terribly upset by this and I wanted to know why I couldn’t find it. I managed to eventually find out that he had ,in fact been on board the Kayeson which set off from Liverpool bound for Montevideo carrying 2802 tons of general cargo and 3901 tons of coal. It was attacked and sunk by U 32 ( captained by Hans Jenisch) off the West coast of Ireland on 2nd October 1940, only 6 months after his 16th birthday.
    Please see posts #18 and 19, thread: m v faraday - https://www.merchant-navy.net/forum/...7-faraday.html

    A bit more: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10357

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    Faraday wreck

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    [QUOTE=Keith at Tregenna;364143]RE: Are there entries like this for all personnel listed at Tower Hill? Looking for similar entry for Thomas Burt aged 18 died on San F;lorentino 2/10/1941

    Do you have a date and place of birth?

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    Hi Keith,

    Most of the details are listed above but repeated here for convenience.

    THOMAS BURT FIREMAN Merchant Navy S.S. San Florentino (London) born circa 1923 Died 02 October 1941 Age 18 years old

    Parents were James and Margaret Burt of Possilpark Glasgow

    Buried or commemorated at
    TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

    sorry I only have an approximate d.o.b

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    Thanks for the update Hazel,
    did you see #41and 42 ?
    Touch wood for more.

    Keith.

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