Newport's War Dead
formerly Newport, Monmouthshire, UK
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Taggert, Frederick, Merchant Navy, WW2
Local memorial - St Julian's High School
Cargo ship Anglo Saxon, 5.596 grt, (Nitrate Producers SS Co.) had loaded a cargo of coal at Newport for Bahia Blanca and joined up with the outward bound 27 ship Convoy OB-195, which departed Liverpool on the 8th August 1940. On the 12th August the convoy disperses and the Anglo Saxon sets course for Argentina. On the 21st August about 800 miles West of the Canary Islands the ship was intercepted by the German commerce raider Widder who proceeded to shell and machine gun tp destruction both the ship and the crew.
Six crew and one DEMS gunner from a compliment of forty one finally got away from the burning ship in an 18ft jolly boat as the ship sank in position 26’ 10N 34’ 09W. The gunner would later die of his wounds, while another crewmember passes away in the boat after 11 days. The Chief Officer and Third Engineer would commit suicide by stepping over the boats gunwhale into the sea after 15 days and the following day the ships cook would go insane and die.
The two survivors Roy Widdicombe and Robert Tapscott would have to endure seventy days adrift in this jolly boat before reaching land, surviving on seaweed, the occasional flying fish and rain water and at one point in desperation drinking the alcohol content of the boats compass.
Widdicombe would be dead within three months of surviving their epic feat while returning home when his ship the SS Siamese Prince was sunk by U-69 with all sixty nine crew lost. Tapscott recovered more slowly and in the summer of 1941 went to Canada. Initially he enlisted in the Canadian army but rejoined the Merchant Navy in March 1943. He arrived back in the United Kingdom in late May 1943. Tapscott continued to serve at sea until his early death at the age of forty two in September 1963.
The photographs above other than the SS Arandora Star have come from Giovanni's daughter Maria and show her father Giovanni (left) when he was in the Italian army during WW1, the story of the arrest of her father while their shop was under siege from some residents of Newport which she described in the memorial booklet when a new memorial to the Arandora Star was commemorated in St David's Cathedral, Cardiff on the 2nd July 2010 and from the South Wales Argus, a report of the conviction of one Newport resident for damaging a pane of glass at Giovanni's property.
Tamplin, Donald Walter Ewart, 22, 24th June 1940, Royal Navy, H.M. Submarine Grampus, D/JX 141387, Able Seaman, Son of Edward James Tamplin and Alice Maud Tamplin, of Newport, Mon., PLYMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Panel 38, Column 2.
Local memorial - Christchurch War Memorial
Local memorial - Havelock Street Presbytarian church
Local memorial - St Mary's RC church and St. John the Baptist church
Local memorial - Shaftesbury Street Methodist Church
Local memorial - St Marks church and entry from Newport Intermediate School for Boys Directory
Local memorial - St Marks church
Local memorial - Lysaght's (Orb) Steelworks
Local memorial - Rogerstone Public Library
Thomas, Violet Maude, 45, 1st July 1941, Civilian War Dead, Civilian, of 16 Eveswell Street, Newport, Mon.Wife of Ernest Arthur Thomas. Died at 16 Eveswell Street, NEWPORT, COUNTY BOROUGH
Buried in grave of "unidentified"
Local memorial - General Post Office, Newport
David Thomas is the father of Newport's famous author, Leslie Thomas
Local memorial - St Mary's RC church
Local Memorial - Summerhill Baptist Church
The Dead Man's Penny Memorial Scroll's
Cause Of Death: Wounded & Missing, later reported killed in action
Service History: Embarked RM Brigade 25/9/15 (joined 1st RM Bn. 22/10/15)
Notes: Father, William, 32 Duckpool Rd., Newport, Monmouth. ; ADM/171 = St.V.B. not issued/claimed
Local memorial - St Mary's and St Michael's RC churches
Local memorial - St Julian's High School and General Post Office, Newport
Cause Of Death: Died of wounds accidentally received (Severe wound over left eye, self-inflicted with a Very Light Pistol 26/4/17).
Service History: Embarked RM Brigade 28/6/16 ; 1st RM Bn. Draft for BEF 4/12/16.
Notes: AFB103 missing ; ADM/159 & Conduct sheet = DOW 2/5/17 ; Report on Self-Inflicted wounds: Man was not considered to blame & no disciplinary action taken. The wound was thought likely to render him unfit for further service. Accident was witnessed by CH/1595/S Private W.G. Burdock, 1st RM Bn. ; Son of Mrs. A. Thomas, of 35 Holt St., Newport, Mon.
Local memorial - Stewart and Lloyds (Lysaghts memorial)
Local memorial - All Saint's Church, Brynglas
Local memorial - Newport Rugby Club and St Marks church
Drowned at Ardrossan 7th January 1943, age 44, whilst serving as Chief Officer on the Tintern Abbey.
Information: Mr Billy McGee
Local memorial - St Marks church and St John's church, Maindee
Thorogood, Reginald Frank, 3rd August 1940, Royal Army Medical Corps., 7371217, Private, NEWPORT (CHRISTCHURCH) CEMETERY, Old ground. Grave 810.
Thwaites, R W, 20th October 1918, 5th Bn. South Wales Borderers, 21614, Private, DELSAUX FARM CEMETERY, BEUGNY, II. D. 3.
Local memorial - St Julian's High School,
Local memorial - St Mary's RC Church
Local memorial - Plaque, St Mary's church, Malpas and WW1 memorial Malpas Community Centre
Local memorial - St. John the Baptist church
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