3717661 Gunner Thomas OGDEN, 5 Battery, 3 AA Regiment, Royal Artillery: 18/10/1941

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OGDEN, THOMAS
Rank: Gunner
Service No: 3717661
Date of Death: 18/10/1941
Age: 30
Regiment/Service: Royal Artillery, 5 Bty. 3 A.A. Regt.
Grave Reference: Plot 8. Row C. Grave 12.
Cemetery: ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Additional Information: Son of Samuel and Sarah Ogden, of Lees, Oldham, Lancashire.

 

Thomas Ogden was killed when the SS Ghyll struck a mine in the Thames Estuary on the 18th October 1941. Six other crew men were also lost.

 

Thank you Guy
Assume his body was washed ashore quite a way from the Thames estuary


Regards
Clive

 

It's a bit odd that he ended up in Abbeville. That's some way inland and certainly a considerable distance from where he died. If I'm not mistaken the current in the Channel runs from Left to Right as you look at it on a map because BEF soldiers killed off Dunkirk were washed ashore on the Belgian and Dutch coast.

 

Clive,
I have only found one of the other casualties, Radio Officer Cyril Milburn FERGUSON. He has no known grave and is named on the Tower Hill memorial.

http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2786602/FERGUSON,%20CYRIL%20MILBURN

There was another Gunner killed alongside Thomas Ogden but I can't track down a name.

Guy

 

BROWN, CECIL ARTHUR
Rank:Second Officer
Date of Death:18/10/1941
Age:30
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy S.S. Empire Ghyll (Grangemouth)
Panel Reference:Panel 41.Memorial:TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:Son of Arthur and Mary Brown; husband of Ethel Brown, of North Shields, Northumberland

COSTELLO, THOMAS
Rank:Fireman
Date of Death:18/10/1941
Age:41
Regiment/Service:Merchant Navy S.S. Empire Ghyll (Grangemouth)
Panel Reference:Panel 41.
Memorial:TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:Husband of Jessie Costello, of Islington, London.

FERGUSON, CYRIL MILBURN
Rank:Radio Officer
Date of Death:18/10/1941
Age:31
Regiment/Service:Merchant Navy S.S. Empire Ghyll (Grangemouth)
Panel Reference:Panel 41.
Memorial:TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:Son of John Hall Ferguson and Minnie Ferguson; husband of Beatrice Jane Ferguson, of High Heaton, Newcastle-on-Tyne

FISHER, LINDSAY MATHIESON
Rank:Chief Officer
Date of Death:18/10/1941
Age:41Regiment/Service:Merchant Navy S.S. Empire Ghyll (Grangemouth)
Panel Reference:Panel 41.
Memorial:TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
Additional Information:Son of Jessie M. Fisher, of Grangetown, Sunderland, Co. Durham.

HUNTER, CHARLES CARR
Rank:Fireman
Date of Death:18/10/1941
Age:34
Regiment/Service:Merchant Navy S.S. Empire Ghyll (Grangemouth)
Panel Reference:Panel 41.Memorial:TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Empire Ghyll, an Icemaid type collier of 2,011-tons was on passage from Sunderland for London, built 1941 at Grangemouth, was 85.8m by 12.19m, 3-cyl. triple exp. carrying 20 crew and 5 passengers (7 lost including 2 passengers), detonated a German mine and sank at 51 40.32N 01 18.50E, 4.5-cables off B No.7 buoy, in Barrow Deep, Thames on 18 Oct 41.......Warsailors.com



Kyle

 

panel from Tower Hill Memorial attached