Great War Dundee
This is Dundee's story of those that served in the First World War, and of the people left at home
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Thomas Rattray Manzie
Military Information
- Date of enlistment: April 1915
- Place of enlistment: Leith
- Service no: 2919ES
- Rank: Engineman
- Service Occupation:
- Awards:
- Regiment/Service: H.M. Trawler New Comet
- Unit/Ship: Royal Naval Reserve
- Place of Death: Lost at sea, off Orfordness, Suffolk
- Age at Death: 40
- Date of Death: 20/01/1917
- Burial Country:
- Cemetery: Portsmouth Naval Memorial, Southsea Common, Portsmouth
- Grave/Mem Ref no: Panel 28.
Personal Information
- Date of Birth:
- Place of Birth: Dundee
- Address: 1 Cannon Street, Leith
- Occupation: Engineman
- Mother:
Margaret Manzie, Tayport, Fife.
- Father:
Edward a Manzie, Tayport, Fife.
- Siblings:
- Spouse:
Mary King Manzie, 1 Cannon Street, Leith.
- Children:
More about Thomas Rattray Manzie
Thomas R Manzie was born in Dundee and was the son of Mr Edward and Mrs Margaret Manzie who later lived in Tayport, Fife. He was the husband of Mrs Mary King Manzie and they lived at 1 Cannon Street, Leith. He volunteered to join the Royal Naval Reserve at Leith in April 1915 and was immediately drafted to the Hired Trawler New Comet based at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk. The New Comet struck a mine laid by the German submarine UC-4 and sank in the North Sea off Orfordness, Suffolk with the loss of eight of her crew. Thomas Manzie is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial at Southsea Common, Portsmouth in Hampshire.
Information supplied by Iain Stewart and Iain Birnie
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