Every Name a Story

G.T. Emms 1939
Rank : Assistant Steward

South Shields

George Thomas  Emms

Every Name a Story

On Liverpool Naval Memorial is the name of Assistant Steward George Thomas Emms, MiD., serving H.M.S. Rawalpindi with the Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy) who died 23/11/1939.

Acknowledgments: Barney Rice

His story is told in: Sobo, M.E., We Will Remember Them: The story of the men on the Ponteland War Memorial, Ponteland Parish Council, 2005, page 10. Private publication.

George Thomas Emms is remembered at Ponteland on P12.08 and P12.10, at South Shields on S86.036 and in our List of Ships’ Crews.

First Name: George Thomas

Last Name: Emms

Service Number: 166451

Which War: Second World War 1939-45

Died: 23/11/1939

Age: 23

Rank: Assistant Steward

Regiment: Naval Auxiliary Personnel (Merchant Navy)

Unit/Ship: H.M.S. Rawalpindi

Decorations: Mentioned in Despatches

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