Heeney, Thomas Henry

BORN HULL 18/01/1890. SON OF CATHERINE CALVERT HEENEY, OF 9 JUBILLE AVENUE, GOULTON STREET, HULL (NAVY ADDRESS). COMMEMORATED ON THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, HAMPSHIRE, UK.

HMS PARAGON, British, Acasta class Destroyer Torpedoed by German torpedo boat S-49 and G-86 that were planning to destroy the Dover Barrage with Sperrbrecher Tillessen. HMS PARAGON was hit by a torpedo and gunfire and broke in half within eight minutes and sank. Some of her own depth charges exploded killing some of the survivors Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?10748


First name:
THOMAS HENRY
Military Number:
587
Rank:
Stoker
Date Died
17/03/1917
Place died:
Sea
Age:
28
9 JUBILLE AVENUE, GOULTON STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK