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Pleace, T E



Southampton Old Cemetery

Southampton Old Cemetery


Thomas Edward Pleace
Tower Hill Memorial, London

Previously commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial in London, his grave has recently (2016) been discovered in Southampton Old Cemetery.

 

 

Remembered on:

Island (Bailiwick) Memorial, St Peter Port, Guernsey
St Peter Port Parish Memorial, St Peter Port

 

The steamship Normandy was torpedoed and sunk (without warning) by a German submarine U.90 8 miles E by N of Cape La Hague on January 25th 1918.


14 crew and 13 passengers dead, 6 crew and 7 passengers rescued

 

 

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Record


Thomas Edward Pleace

 

Thomas Edward Pleace

Chief Officer Thomas Edwin Pleace
Mercantile Marine. S.S. "Normandy" (Southampton)
Owned by London & South Western Railway Co.
25/01/1918

Son of Captain Thomas George Pleace of 1 Osberta Terrace, Bouet, St Peter Port and the late Sarah Vincent Pleace. Husband of Agnes Norah Pleace (nee Butcher), of The Old House, Foundry Lane, Southampton. Born at Guernsey.

Lost, aged 48 years.

 

 

Photographs courtesy of Carole Olding