More about Thomas Patterson Brodie

For reasons unknown this man is not listed on the original Dundee Roll of Honour, but is remembered on the Dundee Orphanage Roll of Honour.

Thomas Brodie   Royal Naval Reserve

Sub-Lieut-Engineer Thos. P. Brodie R.N.R. (killed).—Lieut. Brodie, who was a former pupil of Dundee Orphan Institution and served his apprenticeship with Messrs Gourlay Brothers, and latterly was in the service of Mr D. J. Macdonald, South St, Roque’s Works.  He received his commission in December 1914, Lieut. Brodie was 27 years of age.

Dundee People’s Journal 8th September 1917

SS Dundee, built by Caledon SB. & Eng. Co., Ltd., Dundee in 1911 and operated at the time of her loss by Royal Navy, was a British armed boarding steamer of 2187 tons.

On September 2nd, 1917, Dundee was sunk by the German submarine UC-49 (Karl Petri), southwest of the Scilly Islands. 9 persons were lost.

Thomas Brodie and his sister Jessie lost both their parents, Mr John and Mrs Jessie Brodie, when they were young. Thomas was cared for in the Dundee Orphanage and also lived for a time with the Lowe family of 11 Clepington Street, Dundee. His sister Jessie Brodie, lived with Miss Robertson, 4 Norwood Crescent, Dundee. Thomas Brodie studied at the Dundee College of Technology, Student No 1664, between 1904 and 1909. After the war started he applied to join the Royal Naval Reserve in Dundee as an Engine Room Artificer on 12 November 1914 but was rejected on Medical Grounds because of soft scars on legs as a result of a recent operation. HMS Dundee was an Armed Boarding Vessel and was awarded a Battle Honour for her part in the sinking of the German Commerce Raider Leopard. His name is on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and the Dundee Orphanage Roll of Honour which records him as serving in the Royal Naval Division. HMS Dundee was sunk by the German submarine UC-49 in the South Western Approaches to the English Channel. Three other Dundee men, Andrew Fenwick, James Lavery and Percy Thorne were lost in the sinking.