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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Training ship Cornwall Purfleet
« on: Monday 02 March 09 20:10 GMT (UK) »
Hello again Anne in Oz
Wow, Where did you get all that info? There is no record of anything over here. I am suspicious that there's scensorship issues in the past which has eliminated any access to records of the incident in the UK.
I spoke to Susan Yates from the West Thurrock History Society yesterday, and like myself she came up with a blank on the incident.
She did visit the graveyard and said there is another tombstone to the victims, I will check that out next week and take a photo of it.
The only reference that I found was on a site http://www.discovergravesham.couk/gravesend-chronology/1910-1916.html which confirmed that "17 boys on T S Cornwall drowned, when there cutter collided witha tug near Purfleet" couldn't even get that right, it was sixteen boys and their ofiicer!
Regarding photos there no problem there, what I have will give you a wider picture i.e. tombstones, church, Thames river etc. That can be sent on a cd/rom.
I would like to see that your great uncle and all those who died on 30 August 1915 are not forgotten, and that a memorial of some sort can be erected in West Thurrock, or at least their is recognition that this disaster happened.
I hope that we can correspond, my e-mail address is (*) hope to here from you soon.
Regards Peter, East London
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Wow, Where did you get all that info? There is no record of anything over here. I am suspicious that there's scensorship issues in the past which has eliminated any access to records of the incident in the UK.
I spoke to Susan Yates from the West Thurrock History Society yesterday, and like myself she came up with a blank on the incident.
She did visit the graveyard and said there is another tombstone to the victims, I will check that out next week and take a photo of it.
The only reference that I found was on a site http://www.discovergravesham.couk/gravesend-chronology/1910-1916.html which confirmed that "17 boys on T S Cornwall drowned, when there cutter collided witha tug near Purfleet" couldn't even get that right, it was sixteen boys and their ofiicer!
Regarding photos there no problem there, what I have will give you a wider picture i.e. tombstones, church, Thames river etc. That can be sent on a cd/rom.
I would like to see that your great uncle and all those who died on 30 August 1915 are not forgotten, and that a memorial of some sort can be erected in West Thurrock, or at least their is recognition that this disaster happened.
I hope that we can correspond, my e-mail address is (*) hope to here from you soon.
Regards Peter, East London
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