247838 Stwd. Thomas Richard Greer Merchant Navy from:Southampton Thomas Greer was born in 1889 in Ireland to a coastguard family who moved to Portsmouth. He joined the Marines as a boy bugler but was later discharged due to ill health. He joined the Merchant Marine as a steward and the first record we have of him is his discharge book with the notation "replaced due to loss by sinking" it was on the Brittanic. His only story of the sinking is that he was in the water being drawn into the propellers which were still turning and the next thing he was clear and picked up by a French naval vessel. He served in the Merchant Navy between the wars and was called back during WW2 where he was in the forefront on a landing ship at D Day.
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