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From: Paul Benyon <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] HMS Royal Oak
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 13:47:40 +0100
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:06:43 +0100, you wrote:

>Hello Listers, Can anybody help me locate via the net, a list of those 800 + poor souls who lost their lives in Scapa Flow, I have been told my Grandfather-in-law was among them and want to verify. His name was Thomas Stanley Richards and he would have been 50 years old, he was in the Merchant service, so I do not know why he would have been aboard a Navy Battleship, can anybody out there HELP ?
>
>Kind Regards
>Linda Collie
>Hadleigh, Suffolk

Hi Linda

I'm not too sure how your Thomas' name has become linked with HMS ROYAL
OAK, which was sunk on 14 Oct 1939, but I've just had a look at the
Commonwealth War Graves site at:

http://yard.ccta.gov.uk/cwgc/register.nsf

And there is a record:-

In Memory of THOMAS STANLEY RICHARDS Third Engineer Officer S.S. Eastlea
(Newcastle-on-Tyne), Merchant Navy who died on Sunday, 30th March 1941.
Age 51.

who, according to the information you provide appears to be the person
you are looking for? His memorial is on Tower Hill: panel 36.

I hope this clarifies rather than confuses the situation?

Regards

Paul
Isle of Portland, Dorset


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