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His full name is Thomas David Yorwarth.
Son of Richard Yorwarth and Catherine Hobbs from London, England. Husband of Elizabeth Mary Hill also from London.
On 5 August 1918, the Freshfield was en route from Messina, Italy, to Taranto, Italy, when it was torpedoed and sunk by the UC-25 of Lieutenant Karl Dönitz, future Grand Admiral of the Nazi fleet and designated successor to Adolf Hitler. The ship sank 4 miles (6.5 km) north-east of Cape Colonne, south-east of Crotone, Italy, in Ionian Sea. Three sailors lost their lives.
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Commemorated on:
Page 76 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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TOWER HILL MEMORIAL London, United Kingdom
THE TOWER HILL MEMORIAL stands on the South side of the garden of Trinity Square, a hundred yards East of Mark Lane Station, and just within the boundaries of the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and the Liberty of the Tower. It is at the hub of maritime England. Behind it are Trinity House and the offices of the Port of London Authority, and the Thames stretches before it; the wide space of Great Tower Hill, leading down from it to the river, is the traditional forum of merchant seamen and their fellow workers. Lloyd's is on the North, the Custom House and Billingsgate Market are near it on the West, and beyond the Tower, Eastwards, is the long line of the Docks the greatest dock system in the world.
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