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Bonavista Bay
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Jamestown, Bonavista Bay
c1915
This is my grandfather Henry Thomas (Tommy)
Wells born 1886 in Jamestown, Bonavista Bay.
When the first world war broke out, Tommy
sailed
to England and enlisted in the
Royal
Navy
.
(Where
this photo was taken).
He served aboard the H.M.S. Cornwallis
at
the rank of seaman, saw
action at
Gallipoli
and two years later was torpedoed....
by German submarine U32,
60 miles
southeast
of Malta on the 9th January, 1917.
"Tommy and the rest of the survivors spent
9 hours in the frigid water before being
rescued
and treated for wounds and exposure"
Contributed by Dave Norman (August 2004)
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