Thomas Gill
GUNNER THOMAS GILL
d. 7th Dec 1941 Aged 29
Royal Marine Artillery
Thomas Gill was born in 1912 to John and Elizabeth Gill in Durham, after which the family moved to Midgley. Thomas married Winnifred Mooney in 1940. Thomas joined 115 squadron of The Royal Artillery.
The squadron were stationed aboard merchant vessels as protection from attack in the North Sea and North Atlantic.
He was on board the SS Sauternes with a cargo of supplies and recently minted Danish Kroner for the Faroese when the ship sank in a storm in the firth Fugloyarfjorour within the Faroe Islands. All 25 passengers and crew were lost.
