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Third Officer JOSEPH WILLIAM BRIGGS

Regiment & Unit/Ship

Merchant Navy

S.S. Holystone (Newcastle-on-Tyne)

Date of Death

Died 15 February 1941

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL

Panel 57.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Eltringham Allon Briggs and Margaret Jane Briggs; husband of Kathleen Briggs, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.
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Buried or commemorated at

TOWER HILL MEMORIAL
London United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 35802
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