Thomas Henry Owen, Galley Boy

Thomas Henry Owen, Galley Boy, Mercantile Marine, HMHS Anglia. Lost at sea due to enemy action, age 19, on 17 November 1915.

Thomas Henry Owen was born at Holyhead in 1896. In 1911 he lived at 7 Moreton Terrace, Harp Street, Holyhead and was employed as an Apprentice Baker, aged 14. At the same address was his father, John Owen (65), a labourer, his mother, Grace Owen (41) and his father's brother, Henry Owen (45), a Ships Fireman. His parents married in about 1889. He may have lived at some time at 5 Moreton Terrace and also at 13 Wynne Street, Holyhead.

Commemorated on Tower Hill Memorial