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DH Thomas Fyfe
Royal Naval Reserve H.M. Trawler "George Milburn"
from:Cowie, Stonehaven
(d.12th July 1917)
Deckhand Fyfe was the Son of John Lees, of 4, Helen Row, Cowie, Stonehaven,
On July 12th, 1917, George Milburn was sunk by a mine from the German submarine UC-42 (Otto Heinrich Tornow), off Waterford, 1.5 miles south of Dunmore Point. 11 persons were lost.
He was 27 when he drowned and is buried Between the Church and the North boundary of the Templetown Graveyard,Templetown, Co. Wexford, Ireland.