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Frmn/Tr. Thomas Greaves
Merchant Navy SS Fort Athabaska
(d.7th Dec 1943)
Thomas Greaves died aged 20, aboard his ship in an air raid on Bari Docks. He was born in Jarrow in 1923, the son of Thomas and Jane Greaves (nee Keegans) of Primrose.
Thomas is buried in Bari War Cemetery and is commemorated on the WW2 Roll of Honour Plaque in the entrance of Jarrow Town Hall.