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GILBERT, Thaddeus

Gilbert, Thaddeus

Rank: Skipper

Year of death: 1914

Date of birth: 1853

Date of death: 20.12.1914

Place of death:

Service number: 38146

Regiment: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Medals: Skipper of HM Trawler “Garmo” RNVR. Killed at sea off Scarborough when minesweeping after the German Bombardment of 16.12.1914.

Cemetery location: Manor Road Cemetery, Section K, K.4.6
CWGC grave

Where remembered?:

Biographical Information

Born in 1853 in Grimsby. 1911 census Thaddeus (Fisherman) living in Cleethorpes with wife Caroline. CWGC records Caroline living at 42 Phelp Street, New Cleethorpes.

Inscription

Skipper RNR/T GILBERT/H M Trawler “Garmo”/20th December 1914 aged 61/Gone but not forgotten.