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Tirel, G A E


Tower Hill Mercantile Marine Memorial

Tower Hill Mercantile Marine Memorial, London

 

Commemorated on:
St Thomas' Roman Catholic Church Memorial, Jersey
and on Jersey Mercantile Marine Memorial at Jersey Maritime Museum

 


Commonwealth War Graves Commission Certificate

 

 


George Albert Emile Tirel

Ordinary Seaman George Albert Emile Tirel
Mercantile Marine. SS Galway Castle (London)
12/09/1918

Son of Albert Georges and Marie Rosalie Tirel (nee Dinan), of 19, Hilgrove St., St. Helier, Jersey.

Killed, aged 17 years

 

Passenger steamer SS Galway Castle

U82 torpedoed the liner Galway Castle after leaving convoy OD123 in a torpedo attack off the Fastnet on the 12th. The ship was taken in tow by Woonda and Epic and later Cynic and Cartmel escorted by Allen (DD66), Caldwell (DD69) and Kimberley (DD80). The survivors were returned to Devonport in Oriana and Spitfire. Galway Castle sank on the 15th.