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S George Herbert Alfred Thomas
Royal Navy HMS Gossamer
from:Birkenhead, Cheshire
(d.24th June 1942)
George Thomas was killed in action on the 24th of June 1942, aged 23. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial in Portsmouth, he was the son of Harold Victor and Eliza Thomas, of Birkenhead, Cheshire.
His body was never recovered.
HMS Gossamer was a member of the Halcyon Class and she was a minesweeper assigned to Russian Convoy duties. Whilst at anchor on the 24 June 1942 at Kola Inlet near Murmansk, North Russia, she was bombed and sunk with the loss of 24 crew, including George H. A. Thomas.
His name is recorded on the "World War 2 Birkenhead Roll Of Honour 1939 - 1945" in Birkenhead Town Hall, Hamilton Square, Birkenhead and on the H.M.S. Gossamer memorial at St Bartholomew's Church, Penn, Wolverhampton.