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App. Noel Derbyshire Heys
Mercantile Marine SS Zent
from:307 Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge, Cheshire
(d.5th April 1916)
Noel Heys was my uncle. His parents were John and Ellen Edith Heys, and he was the younger brother of John Holland Heys, who served with the British Army, and was wounded in 1918.
Noel was born 1 January 1900 in Stalybridge. On his first voyage, from Garston, Liverpool, for Colombia, the SS Zent of Elders & Fyffes Ltd of Garston was unarmed, and sank after a second torpedo, off SW Ireland. The names of the crew are in the Tower Hill Memorial, Trinity Square, London and there is a plaque for Noel in St James's Church, Millbrook, Stalybridge.