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Fireman Thomas William Briggs
Mercantile Marine SS Gafsa
from:South Shields
(d.28th Mar 1917)
Thomas William Briggs Fireman, Mercantile Marine. S.S. Gafsa (London)
Son of Thomas and Mary Jane Briggs (nee Crawford) of 187 Adelaide Street South Shields. Born in Jarrow, on the 1911 census, Thomas William Briggs is listed, age 16 as a Riveter Catcher in Shipyard living with his father Thomas and family at 187 Adelaide Street, South Shields on the 1911 census
He was lost at sea aged 22 on 28th March 1917 on the SS Gafsa.
He is remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.