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Wexford men in the Merchant Navy
Michael Kennedy and Thomas Mason
“My father Michael Kennedy was in the merchant navy and his ship was torpedoed. He was from Slade, Co. Wexford, Ireland and they would all have been seafaring people. According to my brother, my father was taken prisoner after his ship was torpedoed and he probably didn’t make it back from Germany until after the war was over. We think he was probably around 19 or 20 years old when he joined up. I…
Contributors
- Mary Foley
Subject
- World War I
- Prisoners of War
- Remembrance
- Michael Kennedy
- Thomas Mason
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1918
- 1918
- 1914
- 1918
- 1914
Contributors
- Mary Foley
Subject
- World War I
- Prisoners of War
- Remembrance
- Michael Kennedy
- Thomas Mason
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1918
- 1918
- 1914
- 1918
- 1914
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2014-06-03 13:55:38 UTC
- 2014-06-03
- 2014-06-03
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/4e8b7d30cb25cde2b394198c3c27a0e7
Places
- Naval Warfare
Provenance
- WE16
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 15845
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/15845
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1914
- 1918
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:45:31.187Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z