Thomas Hugh Cecil Hickland Fee b. 1 Jan 1911 Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom d. 23 Nov 1939: Tangled Roots

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Name	Thomas Hugh Cecil Hickland Fee
Born	1 Jan 1911	Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom [1]
Gender	Male
Education	Queens University of Belfast [2]
Education	Between Sep 1920 and Jul 1921 [3]
	Campbell College, Belfast pupil no 1729
Military	1939 [4]
	Royal Naval Reserve, Engineer "Rawlpindi" - Lieutenant (E) R.N.R.
Died	23 Nov 1939 [5]
	Cause: "KIA" North Atlantic
Person ID	I4197	TangledRoots
Last Modified	22 Oct 2021

Father	David Alfred Fee, b. 28 Jan 1881, Castlereagh, County Down, Ireland , d. 17 Jan 1934, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (Age 52 years)
Mother	Josephine Margaret Beck, b. 29 Dec 1883, Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland , d. 17 Mar 1959 (Age 75 years)
Married	10 Jul 1906	Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland
Family ID	F1887	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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Born - 1 Jan 1911 - Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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In Memory of:
Thomas Hugh Cecil Hickland Fee, Lieutenant (E) H.M.S. Rawalpindi, Royal Naval Reserve, who died on Thursday, 23rd November 1939

COMMERATIVE INFORMATION
Memorial: Liverpool Naval Memorial, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Grave Source: Panel 2, Column 1
Location: The Memorial is situated on the Mersey River Front at the Pier Head, Liverpool, close to and behind the Liver Buildings and the end of James Street. From the end of the M62 motorway follow the signs for the City Centre and Maritime Museum. The Liverpool Memorial consists of a circular column, faced in Portland stone, on a raised semi-circular platform; on its summit is a device of reflecting lenses, suggestive of a beacon. The platform is approached from the promenade by a flight of steps and is surrounded be a wall. At the head of the steps, at each end of the wall, there is a globe; one side being a celestial globe ornamented with the signs of the Zodiac, and the other side being a terrestrial globe showing the countries and seas of the world. Set in recesses in the wall are the bronze panels that bear the names of over 1300 casualties. At the base of the column, facing the steps and the promenade, beneathe the Naval badge of the Naval Crown, wreath, and foul anchor, is carved the inscription: THESE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE MERCHANT NAVY DIED WHILE SERVING WITH THE ROYAL NAVY AND HAVE NO GRAVE BUT THE SEA. 1939 - 1945

HISTORICAL INFORMATION: It was impossible during the war for the Navy to man all the auxiliary ships that served with it. Accordingly early in the war a manning depot was established at Liverpool for dealing with those men of the Merchant Navy who agreed to serve with the Royal Navy under the terms of what was known as a T.124 agreement, and became subject to Naval discipline while generally retaining their Merchant Navy rates of pay and other conditions. They served in various types of auxiliary vessels, at first mainly in armed merchant cruisers, but also in armed boarding vessels, cable ships, rescue tugs, and others on special service. The maximum number of T.124 officers and men exceeded 13,000. Among ships a large proportion of whose complement belonged to this service, the "Rawalpindi" and the "Jervis Bay" won unique renown from the circumstances of their end; but men from over 120 ships are commemorated on the memorial which it was decided to erect at Liverpool. The great majority of Merchant Navy men, who did not serve with the Navy, but with merchant ships, are commemorated on the Merchant Navy Memorial, on Tower Hill, London. This memorial was unveiled by the Admiral of the Fleet, The Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, K.T., G.C.B., O.M., D.S.O., on the 12th November 1952.